P. D. James Quotes
First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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You get to a point in life where you have to enjoy what you do when you come in every day.
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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.