P. D. James - Time Quotes

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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

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

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Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

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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.

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A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

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

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Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

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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.

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