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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

Barbara Mertz

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Funny Want Women
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.
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Another Body Every Year Years
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
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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Fashion Helen Peculiar
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
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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Fighting Home Sorry
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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Cat Treats Way
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
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Doors Mother Pain
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
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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Answers Courses Superb
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

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