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Member Of The House Of Lords Inspirational Quotes (99)

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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.
P. D. James
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At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
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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.
P. D. James
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James
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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.
P. D. James
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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.
P. D. James
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I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
Jeffrey Archer
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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!
P. D. James
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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.
P. D. James
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we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
P. D. James
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Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king energy and no talent and you are still a prince talent and no energy and you are a pauper.
Jeffrey Archer
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No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.
P. D. James
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Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
Jeffrey Archer
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If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
Jeffrey Archer
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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.
P. D. James
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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.
P. D. James
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I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me it's got to be the comeback book.
Jeffrey Archer
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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
P. D. James
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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
P. D. James
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No time like the present
Jeffrey Archer
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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.
P. D. James
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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.
P. D. James
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Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
Jeffrey Archer
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Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
P. D. James
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