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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 young were always theoretical only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
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We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
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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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The doctrine of hell is not mediaeval priestcraft for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.
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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
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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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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
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If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
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She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
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There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.
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all conscious thought is a process in time so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
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