"Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene."

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Rex Stout

#Stories Quotes #Scene Quotes #Holmes Quotes

“We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.”
“Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.”
“Live Foods and Exercise = Good Health and Happiness. Make eating the right foods and daily workouts a top priority.”
“Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity”
“The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.”
“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”
“Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have trouble executing a passage, they generally tend to blame themselves for not having enough talent. Actually, all that's wrong is they don't know where their fingers are supposed to go...you should learn the piece in your head before you play it. And when you do play it, play it so slow that there's no possibility of making a mistake.”
“You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, thatâ€™s the sad truth. Maybe theyâ€™ll break your heart, maybe youâ€™ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. Thatâ€™s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.”

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