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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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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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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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Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
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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 only Christian work is good work, well done
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Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
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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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What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
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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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But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
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The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.
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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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The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.
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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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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--
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this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Dorothy L. Sayers
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
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