I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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William Saroyan
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Sophocles
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
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H. L. Mencken
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Simone Weil
More Quotes By Dorothy L. Sayers
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact,...
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in...
