“Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”
― Gaudy Night
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”
― Gaudy Night
“I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.”
― Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac
― Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac
“People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.”
― The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
― The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
“Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.”
― The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
― The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
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