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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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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Saws, Lawyer, Making Money

Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.344, Essential Library

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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Trouble

Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Great Mistake”, p.282, Overamstel Uitgevers

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Conflict is the very essence of life.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Essence, Essence Of Life, Conflict

Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Album”, p.224, Overamstel Uitgevers

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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Fishing, Brain, World

Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.15, Overamstel Uitgevers

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Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Hard Work, Men, Play

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.30, The Floating Press

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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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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Men, Class, Ego

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It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Courage, Men, Coward

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

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Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Gratitude, Responsibility, Development

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Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Sight, Gains, Infatuation

Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.265, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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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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there is no truly honest autobiography.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Honest, Autobiography

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

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... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Remember, One Love, Ifs

Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “The Breaking Point”, p.311, The Floating Press

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Love, Life, Romance

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

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Safety, Age, Middle

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

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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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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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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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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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Born: August 12, 1876
Died: September 22, 1958
Occupation: Writer
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