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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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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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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.
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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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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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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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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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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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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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But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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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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First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
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I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
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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 great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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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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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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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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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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