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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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[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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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