I wanted two solid months of Neil Young, but he told me it was, quote, 'getting creepy,'


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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.
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What a lovely thing a rose is!"

He walked past the couch to the open window and held up t...
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without havi...
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it ...
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everythin...
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matt...
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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclu...
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From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor...
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing...
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however...
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
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There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish ...
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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.

- Watson
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient ...
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Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had ...
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murd...
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ...
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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed y...
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he...
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gig...
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incide...
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the a...
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs f...
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income o...
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...
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My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...
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I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...
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Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating...
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Era peor la herida... eran peor muchas heridas... que saber la profundidad de lealtad y amor que yac...
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When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-mo...
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A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men wh...
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. . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that th...
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When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.
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She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
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We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.
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One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...
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