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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
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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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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.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
