God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P.D. JamesHe 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?
Tag: love
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
P.D. JamesFor 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. JamesMan is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
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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. JamesTag: 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. JamesTag: experience writers happy value tragic
All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.
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What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.
P.D. JamesTag: murder pd-james the-murder-room
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. JamesTag: murder crime-fiction pd-james the-murder-room
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