Barbara Mertz Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Barbara Mertz

  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.

  Barbara Mertz

  Looks, Done, Amusement

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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.

  Barbara Mertz

  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.

  Barbara Mertz

  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.

  Barbara Mertz

  Cat, Quality, Likes

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• His masculinity was only too apparent

  Barbara Mertz

  Masculinity

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

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Gentleman, Pay

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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?

  Barbara Mertz

  Disappointment, Pessimist, Optimist

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• Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.

  Barbara Mertz

  Heart, Past, Issues

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

  Barbara Mertz

  Husband, Doe, Care

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

  Barbara Mertz

  Children, Privacy, Feels

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• Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

  Barbara Mertz

  Cat, Self, Looks

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• Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

  Barbara Mertz

  Cat, People, Touching

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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.

  Barbara Mertz

  Writing, Character, Knowing

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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.

  Barbara Mertz

  Mother, Pain, Doors

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• love has a very dulling effect on the brain

  Barbara Mertz

  Brain, Effects

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

  Barbara Mertz

  Dust, Instinct, Scholarly

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

  Barbara Mertz

  People, World, Ancient

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