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“Now, here is your box with one door, one window, and solid walls. In discussing ways of escaping when both door and window are sealed, I shall not mention the low (and nowadays very rare) trick of having a secret passage to a locked room. This so puts a story beyond the pale that a self-respecting author scarcely needs even to mention that there is no such thing.”
John Dickson Carr The Hollow Man
E.W. Howe
“A thief believes everybody steals.”
Here’s some quotes from a true lover of the mysterious, Albert Einstein:
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.“
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former.”
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.“
“Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
“As far as the laws of mathmatics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. “
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Frank Herbert
“If a man lies about an apparently inconsequential thing,
then that thing is not inconsequential.”
Father Brown never meets a criminal he could not himself be….