Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“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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“It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.”
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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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“Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!”
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“The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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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“pretense is the oil that lubricates society.”
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“I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.”
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“The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.”
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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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“having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.”
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“I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.”
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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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“when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.”
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“Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.”
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“To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.”
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“A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.”
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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.”
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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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“Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.”
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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.”
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“Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.”
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“The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.”
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“Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.”
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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 is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.”
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