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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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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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[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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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