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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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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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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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Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.
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Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
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Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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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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Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
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we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
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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.
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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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No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.
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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.
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Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
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Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
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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!
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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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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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The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.
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Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.
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