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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls if the answer is, But I don't, there is no more to be said.
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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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
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The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
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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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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
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She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time man measures everything by his own experience he has no other yardstick.
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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
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There's truth as far as you knows it and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.
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