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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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 have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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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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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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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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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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