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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
"The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up."
Job,
"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."
"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
Job,
"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."
Explore more quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."
"What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him."
"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom."
"Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."
"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."
"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."
"To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh, to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door."
"I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job."Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures."
"The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come."
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