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

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Source : Have His Carcase ch. 4 (1932)

Dorothy L. Sayers

#Atheist Quotes #Work Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
“American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.”
“The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.”

Source : Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.171, U of Nebraska Press
“There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.”
“You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of children, to have years of companionship; it's not illegal, but the moment you want to screw somebody, you have to get a license from the state to use your genital organs -or run the risk of being charged with any number of crimes carrying sentences up to and including death. So sex is really the only sensible reason for getting married.”
“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”
“But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.”

Source : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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