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Barbara Mertz

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
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
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
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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Answers Courses Superb
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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Marriage Should Views
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
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
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.)
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Credit Men Thinking
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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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Book Three Way
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

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