| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17702 |
| QUOTATION: | Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes to Watson, in “A Case of Identity,” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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