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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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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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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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Placetne, magistra? Placet.
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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
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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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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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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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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
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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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But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.
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