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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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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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