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Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes about Work

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers
Atheist, Work, Thinking
Have His Carcase ch. 4 (1932)

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Work, Thinking, Squirrels

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jobs, Work, Men

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Work, Mean, Profound
Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.248, St. Martin's Press

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Work, Important, Profession
Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.222, St. Martin's Press

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