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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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