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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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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
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Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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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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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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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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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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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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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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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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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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If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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