Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
BARBARA MERTZBut the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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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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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don’t know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don’t bother to become interesting.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats.” “It is an engaging quality, Emerson.” “That depends,” said Emerson darkly, “on how he likes them.
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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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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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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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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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