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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.

Barbara Mertz

I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Doubt Gold Long Time
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’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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Ghost Reading Stories Stuff
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
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Cat Lap People
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
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
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You
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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Cat People Touching
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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Habit Latter Writing
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
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation

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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