God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

P.D. James


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He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is."

Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

P.D. James

Stichwörter: love



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It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

P.D. James


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For heaven's sake, Darling, keep your crusading instinct [for social justice] under control...It's uncomfortable to live with especially for those of us who haven't got one.

P.D. James


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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

P.D. James


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Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

P.D. James

Stichwörter: first-sentence



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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

P.D. James

Stichwörter: experience writers happy value tragic



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All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

P.D. James

Stichwörter: murder motive pd-james the-murder-room



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What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

P.D. James

Stichwörter: murder pd-james the-murder-room



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Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustion. The moral code by which they lived was that of cleanliness, respectability and prudence. Religion was for those who had the time for it, a middle-class indulgence.

P.D. James

Stichwörter: murder crime-fiction pd-james the-murder-room



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