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Laurie R. King has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call…
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Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
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It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.
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Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
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Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its…
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I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have…
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I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of…
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I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself,…
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...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
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I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the…
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Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.…
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Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’.
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing…
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Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny...
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex,…
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I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.
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In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’
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Once you put bacon in a salad, it's no longer a salad. It just becomes a game of 'find the bacon in…
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People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then…
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Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
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