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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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. 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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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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 takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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