There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.


Gale Sayers

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DOROTHY L. SAYERS
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
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(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...
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
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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...
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As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
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A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
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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 ...
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In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
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In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
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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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