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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
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Pittsburg
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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