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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
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Pittsburg
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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