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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
BARBARA MERTZ

Book Idea Needs
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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Beautiful Hero Nice
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
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Age Easier Youth
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
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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Effort Knowing Moving
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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Blame Cat Dog
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
BARBARA MERTZ

Bird Looks Writing
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.)
BARBARA MERTZ

Credit Men Thinking
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching

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