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The doctrine of hell is not mediaeval priestcraft for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

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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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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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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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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make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
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Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
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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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I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.
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