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“I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.”

Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was an English writer renowned for her detective novels. Her works are celebrated for their unique literary style and profound insights into criminal psychology. Sayers' detective novels typically feature the character of Valery West, a female detective, whose stories offer not only suspenseful plots but also delve into moral and philosophical issues. more

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“No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.”

People Ifs Men Share Victim Meetings Expecting Worthless Vicious Avarice

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.”

Needs Believe Humans Seems Impossible Human Nature

Book:Busman's Honeymoon

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

“whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.”

Way Born Known Murder Endless

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.”

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Book:Thrones, Dominations

Source: Thrones, Dominations

“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.”

Young Realizing Principles Middle Theoretical Middle Aged

Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.”

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Book:Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Source: Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.”

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Book:Thrones, Dominations

Source: Thrones, Dominations