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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
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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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