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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
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Mary Rinehart
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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