P.D. James

P.D. James

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate August 3, 1920

Zodiac Leo

Location Oxford,

Country England

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P.D. James Quotes

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

Tags: bureaucracy murder

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

Tags: death violence

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Tags: healing pain

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

Tags: love regret

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

Tags: embarrassment fear guilt marriage regret

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Tags: emotions experience feel pain

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 hand only if they persevere.

Tags: sexuality

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.

Tags: guilt innocence

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

Tags: aliens pessimism

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

Tags: futility pessimism posterity

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.

Tags: charm false genuine humor humour theo

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

Tags: avoid humor humour love theo

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