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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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 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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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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