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Barbara Mertz

Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
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
Superstition has its practical uses.
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Practical Superstitions Use
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
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Emotion Excellent Method
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
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Clever Ideas Scrutiny
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
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Arguing Thread Trying
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
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Character Knowing Writing
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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Disappointment Optimist Pessimist
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
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Distance Home Three
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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Emotion Gullibility Reason
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Down And Lying Weakness
…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

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