Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
BARBARA MERTZSometimes 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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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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His masculinity was only too apparent
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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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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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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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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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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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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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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