My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.
Arthur Conan DoyleIf in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
Arthur Conan DoyleI consider that a man’s brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.
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Its invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible. It appeared to be omniscient and omnipotent, and yet was neither seen nor heard. The man who held out against the Church vanished away, and none knew whither he had gone or what
had befallen him. His wife and his children awaited him at home, but no father ever returned to tell them how he had fared at the hands of his secret judges. A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them. No wonder that men went about in fear and trembling, and that even in the heart of the wilderness they dared not whisper the doubts which oppressed them.
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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 DoyleTag: imagination sherlock-holmes characters arthur-conan-doyle fictional-characters literary-fiction
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay.
Arthur Conan DoyleHe chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.
Arthur Conan DoyleWhen a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: interesting detective-fiction informative
That was it, sir.
Arthur Conan DoyleAnd brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of
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