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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Barbara Mertz

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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
Archaeologist
Author
Egyptologist
Novelist
Writer
Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
Lectures
Teaching
Humor
Opportunity
Good
Restored
Lecture

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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 approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
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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.
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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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Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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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.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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Now, Mama, Papa, and sir, said Ramses, please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin-- Oh, good Gad, shrieked Inspector Cuff.
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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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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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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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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