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P.D. James has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.
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Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
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It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to…
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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault.…
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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:…
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Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other…
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The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
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The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
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I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
— Cher
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Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
— Raquel Welch
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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
— Muhammad Ali
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When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
— Maxine Kumin
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The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve…
— Mitch Albom
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There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me.…
— E. Lockhart
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And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
— Richard Yates
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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them…
— P.D. James
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I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least…
— Jeff Kinney
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This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted…
— Sara Zarr
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