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make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
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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The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
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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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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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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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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
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Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
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First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
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Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
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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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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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No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
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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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Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
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She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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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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all conscious thought is a process in time so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
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