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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

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
Contented
Cat
Satisfied
Nothing
Self
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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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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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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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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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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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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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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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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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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