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What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

— Dorothy L. Sayers The Triumph of Easter (1938)

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I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking.

Have His Carcase (1932)

The active hatreds rend and snarl at one another; at the bottom, the sullen hatreds lie gurgling, unable even to express themselves for the rage that chokes them.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done.

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

The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

Are Women Human? (1938)

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