P. D. James
P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 August 1920
morning years two
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.
writing nurse publishers
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
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you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.
suicide actors mysterious
Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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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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Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
pain get-well mind
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
children parenting happy-kid
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
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The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
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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.
life pain broken
Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
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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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First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.