Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
BARBARA MERTZThe only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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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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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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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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That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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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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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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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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