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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!
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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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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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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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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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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.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
