Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
Quotes to Explore
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.
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Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas.
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My wife loves Roger Moore.
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I have been so misused by chaste men with one wife, that I would live with satyrs all my life.
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There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
