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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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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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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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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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