D. James
D. James
personality doe affinity
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
skulls skins facts
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
believe thinking goes-on
For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.
faith teaching people
The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.
forgiveness long forgiving
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
ambition possibility ifs
Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.
believe law people
All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.
grief terrible over-it
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
forgiveness unforgivable forgiven
the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.
giving gossip commodity
gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
government people moral
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
morning believe political
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!
rejection infanticide
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
war men may
Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.