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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 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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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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Very dangerous things, theories.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
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The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
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Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
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whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
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All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.
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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
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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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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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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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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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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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