P. D. James Quotes

• Murder is a unique crime for which we can never make reparation.

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• I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.

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• I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

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• I don’t want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

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  Tags in Happiness

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren’t credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

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• Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

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• God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

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• I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

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• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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  Tags in Experiment

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

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  Tags in English

• What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.

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• What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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  It was one of those perfect english autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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P. D. James (13)

Birth:	3rd August, 1920
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

P. D. James is an English crime writer and a life peer in the House of Lords. She is most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney James, a tax inspector, and educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls.

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