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 sell their guilty sexual secrets. - P. James Quotes
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 sell their guilty sexual secrets. P. James
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. - P. James Quotes

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

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It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down. - P. James Quotes

It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. - P. James Quotes

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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 English Novelist Life
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously? - P. James Quotes

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. - P. James Quotes

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

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 English Novelist Murder
Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness which destroyed appetite and peace. - P. James Quotes

Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness which destroyed appetite and peace.

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 Fear
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism - P. James Quotes

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism

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 Fascism
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. - P. James Quotes

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

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 God
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 so we might get a Middlemarch. - P. James Quotes

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 so we might get a Middlemarch.

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 Literature
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. - P. James Quotes

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

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