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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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