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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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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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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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