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Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Barbara Mertz

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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Book Thinking Writing
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Church Joy Majesty
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Character Knowing Writing
I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
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
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family.” “Very boring, Emerson.
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English Ordinary Sometimes Wonder
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 made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

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Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

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