Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
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Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Sign of Four
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
–
Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Sign of Four
She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.
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Molly Ringle,
The Ghost Downstairs
It’s my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I’ve written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don’t know.
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Don DeLillo
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides… I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life’s voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
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David Mitchell,
Cloud Atlas