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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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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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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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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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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