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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.

Barbara Mertz

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
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
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
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
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
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
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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Credit Men Thinking
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
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
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Dust Instinct Scholarly
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
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

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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