P. D. James citations (26 citations)

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“You're going to have to, Xan. You may have to kill her, too.”

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P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“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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P. D. James

Paris Review (1995), as cited in The Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations (2011), ed. Susan Ratcliffe, Oxford University Press, p. 250 : ISBN 0199609128
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“If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

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P. D. James livre The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men (1992), Chapter 1.

“I don't think God bargains.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.”

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Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.”

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Dr. Theodore Faron About Xan.
The Children of Men (1992)

“I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“Oh yes he does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He's supposed to be just. If he wants belief He'd better provide some evidence.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

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

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A Taste for Death Published 1986. Page 373.
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“Darling, you can't promise that…but I like to hear you say it.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“Every novelist write what he or she needs to write, a subconscious compulsion to express and explain his unique view of reality.”

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Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography Faber & Faber, London 1999.
Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not Governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.”

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The Children of Men (1992)

“I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.”

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A Taste for Death Published 1986. Page 412.
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“Perhaps His experiment went spectacularly wrong, sir. Perhaps He's just baffled. Seeing the mess, not knowing how to put it right. Perhaps not wanting to put it right. Perhaps He only had enough power left for one final intervention. So He made it. Whoever He is, whatever He is, I hope he burns in His own Hell.”

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A driver upon being asked if he believed in God.
The Children of Men (1992)

“The intention of any novelist must surely be to make that straight avenue to the human heart.”

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Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”

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Interview with Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph, 26 Sep 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6227400/PD-James-Queen-of-Detective-Fiction-Interview.html.
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