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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

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
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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Husband Independent Intelligent
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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Ambition Cutting Dream
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Arrogance Men Surprise
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
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
It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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Hate Sight Strong
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. ‘Did she cry?’ she asked sweetly. ‘And then you kissed her? You shouldn’t have done that. I’m sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Done Kissing Mistake
That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Ignorance Maturity Profound
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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Noble Political Politics
I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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Credit Men Thinking
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race

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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