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> [It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle’s world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/it-s-impossible-to-read-the-poison-belt-written-in-1913-and-not-see/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

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## More by Gordon Dahlquist

> [It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/it-s-impossible-to-read-the-poison-belt-written-in-1913-and-not-see/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/i-didn-t-understand-her-being-gone-either-i-had-seen-her-fall-now-her/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/this-was-how-people-were-able-to-do-things-when-they-didn-t-want-to/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/but-a-man-did-not-acquire-so-much-gold-brocade-without-learning-to/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“each man braces his fear against his love. What you love may change. But if you love still, your fear remains”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/each-man-braces-his-fear-against-his-love-what-you-love-may-change/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/there-are-so-many-ways-to-tell-time-one-way-with-clocks-and-watches/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/she-did-not-especially-appreciate-children-either-but-could-be-kind/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/when-they-find-what-they-don-t-like-they-destroy-it-because-it-scares/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective--on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/did-not-pleasure-depend-on-an-architecture-of-perspective-on-contrast/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/first-you-say-i-am-a-murderer-an-agent-in-league-against-you-and-now/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/despite-himself-he-scoffed-a-staccato-bark-of-saliva-at-the-very/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“Chang believed that learning was dangerous and best suited for private contemplation, not something to put in the service of the highest bidder- as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/chang-believed-that-learning-was-dangerous-and-best-suited-for/)

[Gordon Dahlquist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-dahlquist/)

> [“Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-dahlquist/is-thinking-small-asked-isobel-small-as-air-may-tapped-my-head-with/)

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