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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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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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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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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But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.
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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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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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How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
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The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
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Plain lies are dangerous.
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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 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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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
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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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I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.
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There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.
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