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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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Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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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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Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.
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[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.
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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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I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
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Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn't false.
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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.
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Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
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Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.
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Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
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You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
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If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
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Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
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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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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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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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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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Every island to a child is a treasure island.
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