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P. D. James [1920-2014] English

Rank: 104
Novelist, Writer

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known 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.

Nature, War

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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.		101
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.		102
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.	War	103
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.		104
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.		105
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.	Nature	106
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.		107
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.		108
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.		109

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