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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.
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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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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all conscious thought is a process in time so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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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We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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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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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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But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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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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It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.
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That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
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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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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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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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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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The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
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The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.
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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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