I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
BARBARA MERTZMoney was the manure of politics.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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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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It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
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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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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don’t like them.
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Money was the manure of politics.
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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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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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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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..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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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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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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