Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
BARBARA MERTZExaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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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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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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