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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.

Barbara Mertz

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
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
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
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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
The only people who are not in awe of Emerson’s powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. ‘Proceed, my dear,’ I said apologetically.
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People Powerful Voice
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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Blame Cat Dog
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
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
A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Common Young Youth
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy

…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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…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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