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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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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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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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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