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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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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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