Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Perseverance, Time, Clever

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “Affinities”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

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  Peace, Affirmation, Passive

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• Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

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  Writing, Certain, Reader

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

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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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  Inspirational, Adventure, Perspective

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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.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Hate, War

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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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  Two, Stories, Mystery Novels

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• Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

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  Endurance, World, Patient

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• The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

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  Church, Going To Church, Pleasure

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.137, Overamstel Uitgevers

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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.

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  Horse, Children, War

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

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  Stars, Ambition, Arms

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

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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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  Morning, Cutting, Cities

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Circular Staircase: Mystery & Detective Collections”, p.35, 谷月社

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• A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

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  Sleep, Littles, Little Love

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2009). “The Breaking Point: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  America, Soul, United States

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

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• Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

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  Rain, Fall, Unjust

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.140, Essential Library

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• when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

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  Knowledge, Doors, Superstitions

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.64, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

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  World, Weapons, Ridicule

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

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  Gasoline, Absurd, Seems

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

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  Girl, Boys, Men

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “Married People: A Collection of Short Stories”, p.11, Overamstel Uitgevers

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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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  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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• 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.

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  Morning, Tired, Sleep

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

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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.

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  Punctuation Marks, Vision, Pavement

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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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• 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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  Christmas, Heart, Might

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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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  Tragedy, World, Growing

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