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“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.”

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
in His Last Bow

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December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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“Only one important thing has happened in the last three days, and that is that nothing has happened.”

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Second Stain
in The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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December 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth we live by, or with. They become our lives.

Guy Gavriel Kay
Written on the Dark
Ch. XIII

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December 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Foolish men could do great damage…. You did not pity them their folly, you took advantage of it when you could.

Guy Gavriel Kay
Written on the Dark
Ch. X

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December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Money is not wasted when spent well.

Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust: The Rose Field
Ch. 4

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December 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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“There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania,” I answered.

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
in The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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December 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I may be old, but I’d like to grow older still. I have things yet to discover….

Guy Gavriel Kay
Written on the Dark
Ch. VI

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December 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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“By George!” cried the inspector. “How ever did you see that?”

“Because I looked for it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
in The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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How do we control what we remember?

Guy Gavriel Kay
Written on the Dark
Ch. V

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December 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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“I’m crazy—but in moderation.”

Dashiell Hammett
$106,000 Blood Money
in The Big Knockover

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December 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop.

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
in The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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December 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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The community is certainly the gainer, and no one the loser, save the poor out-of-work specialist, whose occupation has gone.

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
in The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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December 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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On earth I lived my destined time, kept well what was mine. I did no treacheries, swore no oaths falsely.

Anonymous
Beowulf
Tr. by Tom Shippey

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December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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“Not all is dark. Take courage, Lord of the Mark; for better help you will not find. No counsel have I to give to those that despair.”

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Bk. 3, Ch. 6

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December 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Ch.1

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December 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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“When a man’s partner is killed he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it.”

Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
Ch. 20

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December 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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“Danger is part of my trade,” I remarked.

“ That is not danger,” said he. “It is inevitable destruction.”

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Final Problem
in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Greek Interpreter
in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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November 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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The room was black as an honest politician’s prospects.

Dashiell Hammett
The Big Knockover
in The Big Knockover

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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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“A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with,” remarked Holmes as we trudged along together.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Silver Blaze
in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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November 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Spade chuckled. “The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter,” he said cheerfully.

Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
Ch. 12

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November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
“To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.”
“The dog did nothing in the nighttime.”
“That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Silver Blaze
in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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But the deathless gods oppose the human desire to live forever.

Emily Wilson (translator)
The Iliad
Introduction

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November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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What they want is money. It makes everything dissolve. If they think they can make money out of your work, nothing will stop them.

Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust: The Rose Field
Ch. 35

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November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Take note of that, learn generosity.
I, old in winters, have made this speech
for your sake alone.

Anonymous
Beowulf
Tr. by Tom Shippey

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November 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM