Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
BARBARA MERTZa church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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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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…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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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