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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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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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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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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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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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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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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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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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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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 is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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