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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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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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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
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There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
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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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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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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
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The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
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I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
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