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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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 theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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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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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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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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