Barbara Mertz Quotes - Page 3

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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

  Book, Ideas, Needs

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• 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.

  Barbara Mertz

  Reading, Ghost Stories, Stuff

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• Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, People, Giving

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• I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

  Barbara Mertz

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  Barbara Mertz

  Writing, Habit, Latter

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• I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

  Barbara Mertz

  Book, Three, Way

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• Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

  Barbara Mertz

  Marriage, Views, Should

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• Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dog, Cat, Blame

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• The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

  Barbara Mertz

  Teaching, Opportunity, Lectures

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• 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.

  Barbara Mertz

  Mother, Love You, Son

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• When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Talking, Political

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• It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

  Barbara Mertz

  Age, Youth, Easier

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• A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Asking For Help, Giving

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• Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

  Barbara Mertz

  Cat, People, Lap

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• 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.

  Barbara Mertz

  People, Loving Someone, Disease

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• Superstition has its practical uses.

  Barbara Mertz

  Use, Superstitions, Practicals

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• Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

  Barbara Mertz

  Spring, Promise, Resurrection

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• If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Weakness, Down And

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• a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

  Barbara Mertz

  Joy, Church, Majesty

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• stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

  Barbara Mertz

  Typical, Stereotype, Librarian

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• 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.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dream, Ambition, Cutting

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• Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

  Barbara Mertz

  Humor, Exaggeration Is, Form

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• It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

  Barbara Mertz

  Determination, May, Littles

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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)

  Barbara Mertz

  Husband, Independent, Intelligent

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• Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lap, Slugs, Favors

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