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A writer didn't need an idea for a book; she needed at least forty. And get was the wrong word, implying that you received an idea as you would a gift.

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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so hard to identify.

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Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal — or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Barbara Mertz

Barbara Mertz

Born: September 29, 1927
Died: August 8, 2013 (aged 85)
Bio: Barbara Louise Mertz was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952 she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago.
Known for:
  1. Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975)
  2. Red Land, Black Land (1966)
  3. The Master of Blacktower (1966)
  4. Ammie, Come Home (1968)
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  • cats

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