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From Quotes by P.D. James
- We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
- Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or…
- In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people…
- The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father,…
- If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
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