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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#divorce #evidence #infidelity #marriage #pencils

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish


Mark Frost


#mystery #sherlock-holmes #spy #truth #inspirational

I would have stolen it for you, had I known you were interested." His voice was muffled by the door to the lumber room down the hallway, and I heard thumps and a crash. I raised my voice a trifle more than mere volume required. "I'm interested because she was. Both of them, come to that--Damian's art is infused with mystic symbols and traditions." Holmes' voice answered two inches away from my ear, making me jerk and spray a handful of maps across the floor. "Religion can be a dangerous thing, it is true," he remarked darkly, and went out again.


Laurie R. King


#mary-russell #religion #sherlock-holmes #art

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance like some fantastic landscape in a dream. Baskerville sat for a long time, his gaze fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#mystery #sherlock-holmes #dreams

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?


Laurie R. King


#inspirational #laurie-r-king #mary-russell #sherlock-holmes #the-beekeeper-s-apprentice

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]


Rex Stout


#dickens #larger-than-life #novels #presence #realism

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#love #maltreatment #men #mistreatment #separation

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #violin #music






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