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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.
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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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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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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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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Placetne, magistra? Placet.
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The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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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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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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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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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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