He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disagree with him. It's a tough deal. Athletes get bad names because adults see us not signing kids' autographs, and they don't know the reason. But I know the reason. It's because they're being sold.


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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
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While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
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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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
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I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
(One character on another:)

"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
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A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
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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...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
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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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
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Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
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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...
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It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
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The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
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They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
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You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
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There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
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What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

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