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Barbara Michaels
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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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“[Georgia] did not invite them in, explaining that it was time for her to start her serious drinking, an activity that required privacy and concentration.”
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“Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ...”
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“He had his own door and often brought friends to lunch, for he was a gregarious soul, in a perfectly Platonic way.”
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“Francesca's expression was that of a woman who has been offered a dish of pickled mice ...”
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“Money was the manure of politics ...”
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“Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.”
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“Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.”
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“Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.”
Barbara Michaels, U.S. egyptologist, writer
(1927)
Real name: Barbara Louise Gross Mertz. She also wrote, equally successfully, as Elizabeth Peters (see also quotations under that name).