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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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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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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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