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Barbara Mertz Biography

Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) 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. While she was best known for her mystery and suspense novels, in the 1960s she authored two books on ancient Egypt, both of which have remained in print ever since.

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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Habit, Latter, Mostly, Work, Writing

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

Advice, Fire, Told, Trousers

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

Body, Dead, Same, Year, Years

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

Men, Talking, Political, Honor, Ahead

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Admiration, Astonishment, Believe, Information, People, Received

Superstition has its practical uses.

Practical, Practicals, Superstition, Superstitions, Use

I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

Effort, Furniture, Knowing, Moving, Process, Refused

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. )

Credit, Men, Thinking, Woman

In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat. )

Bastet, Bed, Cat, Heard, Retreated, Silence

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Activities, Giving, Known, Men, People

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.

Wall, Eight, Break Through, Feet, Please, Thick

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

Arrived, Ignorance, Maturity, Profound, Realize

I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

Heart, Human, Inspire, Lying, Past, Secret

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.

Cat, Superior, Treat, Treats, Way

The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband. --Ameila Peabody

Combination, Heart, Husband, Moral, Sincerity

Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.

Expect, Gallivanting, Home, Men, Sources, Thinking

. . . 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.

Amusement, Done, Family, Like, Looks, Loud

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Carry, Funny, Man, Want, Woman, Women

His masculinity was only too apparent

Apparent, Masculinity

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Cheapest, Exaggeration, Exaggeration Is, Form, Humor

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