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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

Barbara Mertz

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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Cat Treats Way
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Only Way Write Writing
…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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Amusement Done Looks
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
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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Disease Loving People Someone
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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
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
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

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