D. James
D. James
together reason humans
Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
retirement people unemployment
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?
book reading pleasure
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
believe politician humbug
A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.
age caricatures old-age
Old age makes caricatures of us all.
writing order appreciate
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
unique murder crime
Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.
successful feelings done
the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
spring long enough
however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.
expectations essentials may
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
youth immortality
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
people childhood kind
You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
creativity atmosphere coercion
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
prejudice letters may
A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.