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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
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Pittsburg
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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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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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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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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. 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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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