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The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
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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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
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The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.
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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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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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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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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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What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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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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There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
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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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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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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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We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
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