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Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn't false.
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
Phyllis Dorothy James
Baroness James of Holland Park
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Baroness Phyllis Dorothy James
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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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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
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The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.
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we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
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