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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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It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
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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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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
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All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.
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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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That there is a secret itself is a secret.
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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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[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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the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
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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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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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The doctrine of hell is not mediaeval priestcraft for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.
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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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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe it is a war of dogma.
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Plain lies are dangerous.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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