Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
BARBARA MERTZA man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
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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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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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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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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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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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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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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..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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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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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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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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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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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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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…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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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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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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