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Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.

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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.

Cities, Cutting, Dozen, Miles, Morning, Throats

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

Apparently, Firsts, Haste, Know, Lasts

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.

Age, Difficult, Mind, Probably, Tree

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Growing, Leaves, Old, Tragedy, World

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

Greatest, Ridicule, Weapons, World

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

Dies, Gains, Infatuation, Seeing, Sight

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

Fellow, Humorous, Joke, Jokes, Men

[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.

Appear, Book, Confused, Memories, Moving, People

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.

Armies, Boy, Candle, Children, Horse, War

Useless as a pulled tooth.

Pulled, Sarcastic, Teeth, Tooth, Useless

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

Death, Die, Doe, Pity, Play, Shameful

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

Trouble, Money, Brings

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

Carry, Knows, Repeats, Success, Terror, Unexpected

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.

Book, Decently, Interred, Laughter, Play

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

Book, Gong, Night, Reorienting, Sleep, Young

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Contradicting, Danger, Lightning, Place, Same

[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.

Audience, Discouragement, Normal, Want, Work

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

Adventure, Inspirational, Perspective, Start, Wonderful

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

Act, Action, Life Is, Preceded, Result, Results

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

Age, Middle, Safety, Solace

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