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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

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
BARBARA MERTZ

Criminals Fancy Masters
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
BARBARA MERTZ

Brain Dulling Effects Love
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Lectures Opportunity Teaching
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
BARBARA MERTZ

Christian Half Lasts
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
BARBARA MERTZ

Facts Prejudice Reputation
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
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Favors Lap Slugs
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.
BARBARA MERTZ

Care Contradicted Husband
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
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Approval Cat Flatter Recipient
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
BARBARA MERTZ

Exaggeration Form Humor
…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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Amusement Done Looks
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
BARBARA MERTZ

Crisis Lying Men
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Fashion Helen Peculiar

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

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