"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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Source : "PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview". Interview With Jake Kerridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 26, 2009.

P. D. James

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?”

Source : Song: Flying Cowboys, Album: Flying Cowboys
“I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.”

Source : "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.”
“Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.”
“Awareness is empowering.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.”
“Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.”
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”

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