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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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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls if the answer is, But I don't, there is no more to be said.
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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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If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
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I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.
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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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