"I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance."

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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.

— Dorothy L. Sayers