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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What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

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The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

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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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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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I like it when stories are left open.

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I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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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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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

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

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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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