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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

Barbara Mertz

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.
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Disease Loving People Someone
..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.
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Female Men Swooning
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
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
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
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
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
Money was the manure of politics.
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Manure Money Politics
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
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 do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
BARBARA MERTZ

Hitting People Tired
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Christian Half Lasts

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