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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.


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GALE NORTON without leaving a footprint.
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GALE GAND Men try to intimidate women out of the kitchen.
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GALE WOLFE So we're looking forward to a matched pair of driving horses pulling that sleigh next year.
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GALE WOLFE There aren't any shelters out there.
GALE RUSSELL We were called by the Lord to do this mission.
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ZONA GALE It's totally possible that that happens.
TRISTAN GALE If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we g...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

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DOROTHY L. SAYERS I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS