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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.

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

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

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

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Born: August 12, 1876
Died: September 22, 1958 (aged 82)
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