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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.
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 truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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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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Placetne, magistra? Placet.
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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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There's truth as far as you knows it and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.
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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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Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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 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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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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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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God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.
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I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
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