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We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving ... — P.D. James

Your concern would have more weight with us if you were sitting
as you could be sitting
on this side of the table. — P.D. James

Reality crashed into my brain: I'd never see my black tiger again.
P. 420, Kelsey — Colleen Houck

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. — P.D. James

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa ... Write it down! — Dave Attell

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

If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars. — P.D. James

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. — P.D. James

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. — P.D. James

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern. — P.D. James

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us. — P.D. James

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own. — P.D. James

Love, always love. Perhaps that's what we're all looking for. And if we don't get it early enough we panic in case we never shall. — P.D. James

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D. — J.P. Donleavy

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. — P.D. James

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want. — P.D. Ouspensky

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P.D. James

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it. — P.D. James

If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps. — P. J. O'Rourke

I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me. — P. J. O'Rourke

He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love. — P.D. James

At one moment when I say 'I', one part of me is speaking,and at another moment when I say 'I', it is quite another 'I' speaking. — P.D. Ouspensky

We have all sinned, Mr. Darcy, and we cannot look for mercy without showing it in our lives. — P.D. James

You can test me, haunt me...all you want. — D.P. Joynes

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. — P.D. Ouspensky

I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet — Lois Greiman

A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree! — P.D. Cain

If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself. — P.D. Ouspensky

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free. — P. J. O'Rourke

Equality is a political theory not a practical policy ... — P.D. James

I don't trust myself with you." It had to be said, even if I hated admitting it to him and myself. — D.T. Dyllin

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love. — P.D. James

Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500. — Steven D. Levitt

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not. — E.P. Thompson

(A murderer about their victim
He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing. — P.D. James

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie. — P.D. Ouspensky

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. — P.D. James

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say. — P. J. O'Rourke

I think I'd miss the dreams.
Wecker, Helene (2013-04-23). The Golem and the Jinni (P.S.) (p. 59). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. — Helene Wecker

What is there to be frightened of? We shall be dealing only with men. — P.D. James

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life. — P.D. James

They said it had been there before D'Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. — H.P. Lovecraft

dresses, some of the girls in clothes which — P.D. James

He'd given up squid merchanting when he'd found that the creatures inhabited his dreams, all leggy and cold. — James P. Blaylock

It is some centuries since we accepted that a woman has a soul. Is it not time that we accepted that she also has a mind? — P.D. James

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style. — P.D. James

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell. — P.D. James

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? — P.D. James

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide. — P.D. James

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself. — P.D. Ouspensky

The cultured cop! I thought they were peculiar to detective novels. — P.D. James

Love she'd had for her grandmother had died sixteen years ago on May 25th at exactly 3:32 p.m. I figure it'll take the Peaceful Rest and Slumber folks — Katie Graykowski

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. — P.D. James

I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval. — P.D. James

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams. — P.D. Ouspensky

Guilt is more commonly felt by the innocent than by the culpable, — P.D. James

S. P. T. to A. P. W. B. D. Dark — J.K. Rowling

We can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us. — P.D. James

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified. — P.D. Ouspensky

Margaret Mead has said, Hell is always more convincing than Heaven.48 — P.D. Smith

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. — P.D. James

We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other. — P.D. James

P.S. If any boy ever asks for my hand in marriage, show him #4. I'm in love. I'd marry a pirate for a ring like that. — Jillian Dodd

Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge. — P.D. James

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists. — P. J. O'Rourke

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. — P.D. James

One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones. — P.D. Ouspensky

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.
p 284 — Frank Huyler

One does not kill to avoid social inconvenience. — P.D. James

The detective story is not about murder," P. D. James has written, "but the restoration of order. — Anonymous

Mrs. Maxie wondered whether anyone could be as stupid as Sir Reynold appeared to be — P.D. James

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. — P.D. James

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility. — P.D. James

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics. — P.D. James

I find it more and more difficult to write fiction, when the truth has become so unbelievable. --DP Vent — D.P. Vent

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear. — P.D. James

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. — P.D. Ouspensky

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting. — P.D. James

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine. — Daisy Donovan

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. — P.D. James

Old age makes caricatures of us all. — P.D. James

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with. — P. J. O'Rourke

The attempt to analyse was, of course, an attempt at exorcism. — P.D. James

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature. — P.D. James

She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love. — P.D. James

You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort! — P.D. Eastman

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws. — P.D. Ouspensky

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided. — P.D. James

We need, all of us, to be in control of our lives, and we shrink them until they're small and mean enough so that we feel in control. — P.D. James

Henry James's definition of the purpose of a novel: To help the human heart to know itself. — P.D. James

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it. — P.D. James

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate ... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me. — Joseph P. Kennedy III

The Wild West didn't have much in the way of forensics; when you saw the bullet hole you'd say, 'That's prob'ly what kilt 'im. — P.K. Vandcast

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people. — P.D. James

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries. — P.D. James

Read, read, & read a lot!
Write when ever you can,and never give up. — D.P. Hall

Every island to a child is a treasure island. — P.D. James

Surely it is important that people who love each other should be able to speak openly and truly about matters which touch them. — P.D. James

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric. — Erik Brynjolfsson

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P.D. James