A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
BARBARA MERTZChildren, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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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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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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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.
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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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There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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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 disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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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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