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If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Phyllis Dorothy James
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Baroness James of Holland Park
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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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Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
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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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Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
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we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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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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No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.
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Every island to a child is a treasure island.
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I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
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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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