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Gaudy Night (1935)
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A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed... or find a still greater man to marry her.... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
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If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.
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She had one of those small, summery brains, that flower early and run to seed.
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I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.
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I admit it is better fun to punt than to be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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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. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. - Lord Peter Wimsey
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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes.
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Born:
June 13, 1893
Died:
December 17, 1957
(aged 64)
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