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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

Barbara Mertz

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Book Three Way
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
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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Distance Home Three
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Arrogance Men Surprise
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
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
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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Character Knowing Writing
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Believe Children Stupid
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
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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Determination Littles May

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

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