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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
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 love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.
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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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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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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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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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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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Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
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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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