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.
BARBARA MERTZI 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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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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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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