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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James
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P. D. James
Age: 94 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 3
Died: 2014
Died: November 27
Member Of The House Of Lords
Novelist
Politician
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Phyllis Dorothy James
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Baroness James of Holland Park
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Baroness Phyllis Dorothy James
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however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.
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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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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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Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
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