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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.
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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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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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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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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What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
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It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
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What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
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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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