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. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. 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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To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
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I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
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It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.
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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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That there is a secret itself is a secret.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
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