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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.
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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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
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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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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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Plain lies are dangerous.
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The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).
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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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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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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 great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
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Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe it is a war of dogma.
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She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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