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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.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
Novelist
Nurse
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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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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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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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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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.
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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.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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