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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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Pittsburg
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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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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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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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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
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.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
