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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male…
— Ann Beattie
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Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed…
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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
— Nell Freudenberger
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
— Amy Waldman
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,…
— Nell Freudenberger
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I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction…
— Emily Perkins
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Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and…
— Cathleen Schine
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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.
— Clark Blaise
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