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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 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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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