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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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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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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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