We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.


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By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
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...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
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 ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
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...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.

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