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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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