Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Stories Quotes, Causes Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.

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But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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All love stories are the same.

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Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.

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