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He knew that marriage was a beginning and not an end. It did not change people fundamentally. It only changed their habits.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

[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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Mary Roberts Rinehart