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Barbara Mertz

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
BARBARA MERTZ

Common Young Youth
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
BARBARA MERTZ

Female Men Swooning
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Foot Future Many One People Watches
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
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
BARBARA MERTZ

Exaggeration Form Humor
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Giving Men People
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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Bird Looks Writing
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)
BARBARA MERTZ

Husband Independent Intelligent
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
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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Care Contradicted Husband
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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Doubt Gold Long Time
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
BARBARA MERTZ

Down And Lying Weakness
…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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Amusement Done Looks
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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Believe Children Stupid
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
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
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
BARBARA MERTZ

Librarian Stereo Typical
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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Character Knowing Writing
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking

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

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