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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.
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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We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
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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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It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
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I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
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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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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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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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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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The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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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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I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.
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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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Placetne, magistra? Placet.
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