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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)


Dorothy L. Sayers

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JUDITH SAYERS Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer o...
GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
MATT SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co...
JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ...
JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th...
JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an...
DOROTHY THOMPSON I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t...
DOROTHY DIX Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries...
DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
DOROTHY DIX You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi...
DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle.
DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th...
DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa...
DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...
DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap...
DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of...
DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER