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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
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Baroness James of Holland Park
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All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.
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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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If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?
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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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gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
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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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You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
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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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It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words justice, compassion, society, struggle, evil, would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
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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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The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.
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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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Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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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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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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We English are good at forgiving our enemies it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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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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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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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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Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
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