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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.
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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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.
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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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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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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
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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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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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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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make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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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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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls if the answer is, But I don't, there is no more to be said.
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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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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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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
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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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