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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

Barbara Mertz

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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
Archaeologist
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Egyptologist
Novelist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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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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I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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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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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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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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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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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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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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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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