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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Punctuation Marks, Vision, Pavement

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Stars, Ambition, Arms

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.9, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Oil, Pretense

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.31, The Floating Press

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• All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Men, House, Haunted Houses

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.35, Overamstel Uitgevers

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Men, Strain

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.221, Essential Library

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• there is no truly honest autobiography.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Honest, Autobiography

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Love, Life, Romance

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• as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Boys, Men, Elderly

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.24, The Floating Press

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• It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Safety, Age, Middle

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.14, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  America, Soul, United States

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars”, p.165, Essential Library

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Morning, Tired, Sleep

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1920). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man”

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• We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Typewriters, Miserable, Not Happy

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Home, Thinking, Next Week

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Sacrifice, Great Love, Tragedy

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2010). “Dangerous Days”, p.443, The Floating Press

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• Old men make wars that young men may die.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  War, Men, May

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• there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

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  Heart, Ambition, Romance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Years, People, Tolerance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Where There's a Will”, p.242, The Floating Press

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• Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Christmas, Heart, Might

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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• it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Want, Firsts, Married

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Where There's a Will/The Case of Jennie Brice/The After House”, p.61, Essential Library

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Writing, Careers, May

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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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

  Feet, Feelings, Everyday

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Love Stories”, p.136, The Floating Press

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