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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Age: 64 †
Born: 1893
Born: June 13
Died: 1957
Died: December 17
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
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What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion He rose from the dead.
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The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.
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... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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