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Do you know how to pick a lock? Not in the least, I'm afraid. I often wonder what we go to school for, said Wimsey.
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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It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
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The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
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Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
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If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
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It's very good of you-- No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may. I will give the footman orders to admit you, said the prisoner, gravely, you will always find me at home.
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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
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She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Plain lies are dangerous.
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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
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make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
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Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
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If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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