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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

Barbara Mertz

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
..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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Female Men Swooning
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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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Fighting Home Sorry
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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Cat Likes Quality
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Christian Half Lasts
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Ambition Cutting Dream

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

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