Barbara Mertz Quotes - Page 3

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• Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

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  Writing, Bird, Looks

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

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  Men, People, Giving

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• Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

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  Children, Privacy, Feels

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• Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.

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  Husband, Doe, Care

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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.

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  People, Loving Someone, Disease

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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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  Determination, May, Littles

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• Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

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  Humor, Exaggeration Is, Form

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

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  Men, Asking For Help, Giving

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• His masculinity was only too apparent

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  Masculinity

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

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  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.

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  Dream, Ambition, Cutting

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

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  Cat, People, Lap

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• 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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  Writing, Character, Knowing

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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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  Disappointment, Pessimist, Optimist

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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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  Husband, Independent, Intelligent

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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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  Children, Stupid, Believe

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• ...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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  Looks, Done, Amusement

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• There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

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  Mother, Pain, Doors

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• The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. 'Proceed, my dear,' I said apologetically.

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  Powerful, Voice, People

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• I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

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  Ordinary, Would Be, Sometimes

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• You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.

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  Cat, Quality, Likes

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• Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

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  Men, Gentleman, Pay

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• There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

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  People, World, Ancient

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• love has a very dulling effect on the brain

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  Brain, Effects

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• But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

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  Dust, Instinct, Scholarly

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