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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
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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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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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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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