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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
Cat
Satisfied
Nothing
Self
Looks
Contented

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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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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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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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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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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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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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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.
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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 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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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