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

— P. D. James Time to be Earnest – a Fragment of Biography (1999)

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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?"

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)

"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)

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

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)

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

The Children of Men (1992)

"It isn't what you suspect, it's what you can prove that counts."

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)

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