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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.
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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She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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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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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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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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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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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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