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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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