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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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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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I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.
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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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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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To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.
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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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I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
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It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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.
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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
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It's very good of you-- No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may. I will give the footman orders to admit you, said the prisoner, gravely, you will always find me at home.
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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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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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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