P. D. James Short Quotes

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

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The unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

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We can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

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I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.

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I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.

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Love, always love. Perhaps that's what we're all looking for.

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&You're going to have to, Xan. You may have to kill her, too.

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However long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

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Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

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No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

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Darling, you can't promise that... but I like to hear you say it.

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How odd that sex should be so simple and love such a complication.

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He was a man whose absence was usually preferable to his presence.

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I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.

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Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

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It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

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Christmas, that annual celebration of parental guilt and juvenile greed.

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They are, after all, one of the most graceful of life's fragile diversions.

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You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

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A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

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

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Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion, and fear.

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

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That's all one asks of a sermon. No possible relevance to anything but itself.

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

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Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

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

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No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

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There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

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

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