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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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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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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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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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