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Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park ,( 1920 – 2014), known professionally as P. D. James , was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney James, a tax inspector, and educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls. She had to leave school at the age of sixteen to work because her family did not have much money and her father did not believe in higher education for girls. She worked in a tax office for three years and later found a job as an assistant stage manager for a theatre group. In 1941, she married Ernest Connor Bantry White, an army doctor. They had two daughters, Clare and Jane.
“Time didn’t heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.”
“Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.”
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
“Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn’t capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn’t false.”
“Perhaps it’s only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it’s too late then for them to do anything about it.”
“Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.”
“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”
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- - - - - - -“Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.”
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
“Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn’t capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn’t false.”
“Perhaps it’s only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it’s too late then for them to do anything about it.”
“Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.”
“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”
