Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

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About Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( SAIRZ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.

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We may argue eloquently that "honesty is the best policy." Unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations. . . . The root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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Truth, poor child, was nobody's daughter. She took off her clothes and jumped in the water.

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Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

—Dave Kellett

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

—Dame Rose Macaulay

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

—Cicero

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

—Christopher Morley

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.