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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

Barbara Mertz

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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Astonishment Believe People
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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Cat People Touching
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Arrogance Men Surprise
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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Fashion Helen Peculiar
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.
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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

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