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“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”

Fiction Stale Sherlock Holmes Baker Street On Fiction Plannings Unprofitable Chains Of Events Cross Purposes Strange Coincidences Commonplaces Of Existence Outre Results

Book:The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Lastly, it should be noted that the nostalgia which the reading public maintains for my former Baker Street address does not exist in me. I no longer crave the bustle of London streets, nor do I miss navigating the tangled mires created by the criminally disposed.”

Book:A Slight Trick of the Mind

Source: A Slight Trick of the Mind

“I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.”

Said I Can Book Girl Easy Forget Streets Crime Solve Flight Fancy Chairs Detectives Old Lady Bakers Knitting Deductions Baker Street

Author:Mizuki Nomura

“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.”

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Author:Rex Stout

“I remember when I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I thought Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the greatest writers, because I felt I knew Sherlock Holmes. He existed to me. When I went to England the first thing I did was go to Baker Street to look for his house. I think you've got to try to make all of your characters as empathetic and realistic as possible.”

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Author:Stan Lee

“The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.”

Knows Giving Today Sound Streets Rocks Creating Classic Solo Seventies Creepy Chorus Saxophone Bakers Ulysses Raphael Baker Street

Author:Rob Sheffield

“In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.”

Stills Streets Treasure Holmes Bakers Nephew Baker Street

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen

“...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.”

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Book:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.”

Heart Ends Broken Advantage Caring Baker Street

Author:Steven Moffat

“But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.”

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Author:Vincent Starrett

“Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!”

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Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton