Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes
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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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[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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.
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because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.
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Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!
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I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.
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Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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Old men make wars that young men may die.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.
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