Cecile > Cecile's Quotes

“It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men

“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“I’ll watch with you.”
― Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
― E.E. Cummings