kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
BARBARA MERTZLoving 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.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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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 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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There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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