A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
BARBARA MERTZYou 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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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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…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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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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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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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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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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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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