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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
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
required less personal supervision, and as they both got their
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter,
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
There is no truly honest autobiography.
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Every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
A man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
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There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Conflict is the very essence of life.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
No one moved to get the whisky, from which I judged there were three pocket flasks ready for emergency.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
If one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
There comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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
Enemies are an indication of character.
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It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Useless as a pulled tooth.
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And there are no pockets in shrouds!
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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!
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
When knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Old men make wars that young men may die.
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These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart