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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

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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Character Knowing Writing
I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Determination Littles May
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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Blame Cat Dog
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth

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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