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• Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

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  Wall, Paper, Used

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1959). “Miss Pinkerton”

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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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  Long, Remember, Forget

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1936). “The doctor”

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• A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Cat

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1993). “The frightened wife, and other murder stories”, Thorndike Pr

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• From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

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  Class, Hatred, Steps

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.175, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

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  Book, Sleep, Night

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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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  Moving, Mind, Barns

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.197, Essential Library

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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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  Philosophy, Mind, World

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.16, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

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  Book, Criminals, Ends

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Man in Lower Ten”, p.2, Booklassic

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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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  Names, Letters, Welcome

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Circular Staircase”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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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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  Lying, Team, Moving

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1972). “Lost Ecstasy”

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• There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

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  Play, Doe, Pity

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

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• [To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

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  Would Be, Plumber, Needed

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• Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

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  Book, Giving, Dinner

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• I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

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  Divorce, Oil, Disagreeable

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2008). “When A Man Marries (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

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  Haste, Lasts, Firsts

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

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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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• There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

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  Curiosity, Unbearable, Obsession

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.53, Essential Library

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• the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

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  Boredom, Calm, Resurrection

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1910). “The window at the White Cat”

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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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  Race, Devil, Want

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• [When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

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  Memories, Confused, Moving

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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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  Hands, Want, Lawyer

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “The Circular Staircase/The Man in Lower Ten”, p.229, Essential Library

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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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  Wine, Pills, Bottles

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Where There's a Will/The Case of Jennie Brice/The After House”, p.200, Essential Library

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• These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

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  Men, Thinking, Action

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.16, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

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  Lightning, Contradicting, Danger

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “The Window at the White Cat”, p.225, The Floating Press

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