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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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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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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Enemies are an indication of character.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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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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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
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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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Conflict is the very essence of life.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
