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• War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Horse, Children, War

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• there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

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  Laughter, Book, Play

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

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• 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.

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  Tragedy, Experience, Generations

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1972). “Lost Ecstasy”

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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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  Relief, Trouble, Burden

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1919). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Dangerous days”

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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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  Want, Normal, Discouragement

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

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• The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

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  Life And Love, Drama, Book

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars”, p.9, Essential Library

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• Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

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  Humorous, Men, Jokes

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.22, The Floating Press

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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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  Husband, Ideas, Age

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.37, The Floating Press

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• Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

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  Unexpected, Terror, Repeats

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

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• my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

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  Hair, My Family, Social

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.180, Essential Library

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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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  Dog, Women, Fetch

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.26, The Floating Press

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• Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

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  Grateful, Dirty, Men

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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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  Writing, Careers, May

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

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• Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

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  Book, Writing, Silence

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

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• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

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  Peace, Hate, War

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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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  Illusion, Revelations, Accepting

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

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• There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

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  Fear, Cancer, Men

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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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  Feet, Feelings, Everyday

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

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• every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

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  Action, Life Is, Results

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

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  Tree, Mind, Age

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1936). “The doctor”

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• Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

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  Opportunity, Equality, Men

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

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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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  Missing, Said, Possession

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “The Window at the White Cat”, p.35, The Floating Press

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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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  Writing, People, Perfect

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

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• ... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

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  Country, Fear, Struggle

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

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• Useless as a pulled tooth.

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  Sarcastic, Teeth, Useless

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