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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

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Kissing Mistake Someone
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
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 is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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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Doors Mother Pain
..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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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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Husband Independent Intelligent
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
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Answers Courses Superb
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

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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