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"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."
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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."
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"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
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"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
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"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
Art
"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."
Life
"I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution."
Mystery
"Holmes, I cried, "this is impossible. "Admirable! he said. "A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy?"
Mystery
"There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world."
Mystery
"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman."
Nothing
"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
Character
"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
Crime
"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
Storytelling
"The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere."
Exploration
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