Laurie R. King quotes

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era. (Laurie R. King)

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

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Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

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I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

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I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

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You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

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The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

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Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

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That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

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Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman.

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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 the, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images. (Laurie R. King)

... 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 took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

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