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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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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
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Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.
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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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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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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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What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
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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.
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Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
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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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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.
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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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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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