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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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Pittsburg
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Mary Rinehart
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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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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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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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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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