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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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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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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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