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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

Barbara Mertz

Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
..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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Female Men Swooning
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
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
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
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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Appearance Demand Female
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
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Book Thinking Writing
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
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
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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Love Mother Son You

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

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