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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
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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