That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
BARBARA MERTZI have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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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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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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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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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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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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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 only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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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.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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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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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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Money was the manure of politics.
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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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