“Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers , book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957

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