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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
Crime Writer
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Sir A. Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed that snakes have talked that women have been turned into salt that rods have brought water out of rocks.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
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When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
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