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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
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 fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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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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The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
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Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
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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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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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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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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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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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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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The young were always theoretical only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
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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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To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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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 first thing a principle does is kill somebody
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
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It's very good of you-- No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may. I will give the footman orders to admit you, said the prisoner, gravely, you will always find me at home.
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