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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
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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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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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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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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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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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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