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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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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Mary Rinehart
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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