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P D James Inspirational Quotes (67)

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First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.
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Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
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Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn't false.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!
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It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.
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we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
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No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.
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Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
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It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
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There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.
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I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
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Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
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The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
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Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.
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Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
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however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.
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