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The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
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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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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Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
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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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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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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
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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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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.
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. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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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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It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
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the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
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What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
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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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make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
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But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.
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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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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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