Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mots clés reading learning sherlock-holmes arthur-conan-doyle watson sir-arthur-conan-doyle desultory-readers

Aller à la citation

---

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mots clés imagination sherlock-holmes characters arthur-conan-doyle fictional-characters literary-fiction

Aller à la citation

---

He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.

Julian Barnes

Mots clés love death marriage death-and-dying illness arthur-conan-doyle death-of-a-loved-one

Aller à la citation

---

« ; premier précédent
Page 2 de 2.

---

---