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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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