The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
BARBARA MERTZWhen one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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..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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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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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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Money was the manure of politics.
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Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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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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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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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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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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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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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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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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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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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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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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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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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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Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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