P.D. James, The Children of Men
"You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose."
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"You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"I don’t think He bargains.”“Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He’s supposed to he just. If He wants belief He’d better provide some evidence.’“That He exists?”“That He cares."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
"I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything."
P.D. James, The Children of Men
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