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there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

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
Nothing
Like
Gardening
Garden
Rest
Soul

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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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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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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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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 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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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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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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Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
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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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...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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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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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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