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  • #1
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

  • #2
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #3
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #4
    G.K. Chesterton
    “One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”
    G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

  • #5
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #8
    “In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

    In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.

    I liked the Irish way better.”
    C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    Douglas Adams

  • #10
    Bill Watterson
    “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
    Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

  • #11
    “Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
    Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #13
    William Ewart Gladstone
    “If you are cold, tea will warm you;
    if you are too heated, it will cool you;
    If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
    If you are excited, it will calm you.”
    William Ewart Gladstone
    tags: tea

  • #14
    Gary Snyder
    “There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
    Gary Snyder

  • #15
    Frances Hardinge
    “Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
    Frances Hardinge

  • #16
    Arthur Wing Pinero
    “While there is tea, there is hope.”
    Arthur Wing Pinero, Sweet Lavender - A Comedy in Three Acts.
    tags: hope, tea

  • #17
    “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
    Lu T'ung

  • #18
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #20
    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.”
    Charles Bukowski, On Cats

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.”
    Charles Bukowski, On Cats
    tags: cats

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #24
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #25
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #26
    Pablo Neruda
    “Now we will count to twelve
    and we will all keep still.

    For once on the face of the earth
    let's not speak in any language,
    let's stop for one second,
    and not move our arms so much.

    It would be an exotic moment
    without rush, without engines,
    we would all be together
    in a sudden strangeness.

    Fishermen in the cold sea
    would not harm whales
    and the man gathering salt
    would look at his hurt hands.

    Those who prepare green wars,
    wars with gas, wars with fire,
    victory with no survivors,
    would put on clean clothes
    and walk about with their brothers
    in the shade, doing nothing.

    What I want should not be confused
    with total inactivity.
    Life is what it is about;
    I want no truck with death.

    If we were not so single-minded
    about keeping our lives moving,
    and for once could do nothing,
    perhaps a huge silence
    might interrupt this sadness
    of never understanding ourselves
    and of threatening ourselves with death.
    Perhaps the earth can teach us
    as when everything seems dead
    and later proves to be alive.

    Now I'll count up to twelve
    and you keep quiet and I will go.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #27
    Miles Davis
    “If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”
    Miles Davis

  • #28
    Ira Levin
    “Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
    Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby

  • #29
    Ira Levin
    “The baby kicked like a demon”
    ira levin, Rosemary’s Baby

  • #30
    Ira Levin
    “The thing to do was kill it. Obviously.”
    Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby



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