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The replipca of the Eagle of Child, the pub where the Inklings met, in the room where the Brown Collection is housed. (Photo courtesy of the collection's official website)
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life. Christian Century, May 18, 1994, by Peter S. Hawkins
“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for w...
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