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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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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. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
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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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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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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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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 very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
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