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P D James Inspirational Quotes (67)

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Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
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Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.
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Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.
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When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?
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[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.
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the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
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In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
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The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.
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read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
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Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn't false.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
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If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.
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