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“Old men make wars that young men may die.”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer known for her suspense novels. She is considered a pioneer in the genre of detective fiction and is often referred to as the 'Mother of Detective Fiction'. more

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

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Thinking Seems Artist Dies Hours Passing Passings

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.”

Men Stories Turns Women Careers Historical Eight Exception Biographies

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.”

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Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

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