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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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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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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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