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There were moments, usually on a sunny Easter morning, when she wished that she could with sincerity call herself a Christian; but for the rest of the year she knew herself to be what she was - incurably agnostic but prone to unpredictable relapses into faith.

— P. D. James An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)

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"But what is the use of making the world more beautiful if the people who live in it can't love one another?"

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"Old age can be very frightening, Commander. A lawyer whose mind is apt to go blank isn't just inefficient, he's dangerous."

A Certain Justice (1997)

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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"Hunch is a good servant but a poor master."

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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

The Children of Men (1992)

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