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Member of the House of Lords

P. D. James, born on August 3, 1920 and died on November 27, 2014, was a distinguished member of the House of Lords. She was a highly acclaimed author of detective fiction, recognized for her intricate plots and complex characters.

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Famous P. D. James Quotes

“Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?”

People Men Found Dignity Retirement Unemployment

Book:Original Sin

Source: Original Sin

“Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.”

Men May War Decent Decent Man

Book:A Taste for Death

Source: A Taste for Death

“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”

Ifs Men Past Beast Without Hope

Author:P. D. James

“The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.”

Men World Way Spirit Father Speak Land Moved Ill Strangeness Terminally Ill

Book:The Children of Men

Source: 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.”

Knows Men Feels Writing Years I Can Lost Known Regret Being True Tone Fifty Deaf Fifty Year Olds

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.”

Men World Self Changed Fool Men And Women Prepared

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.”

Men Used Cities Violence Streets Great Cities Hedgerows

Author:P. D. James

About the Author

Born: August 3, 1920
Died: November 27, 2014
Known for: Member of the House of Lords
Quotes: 126

Books & Sources

The Children of MenRelated source material

Time to Be in EarnestRelated source material

A Taste for DeathRelated source material

Devices and DesiresRelated source material

Original SinRelated source material

The LighthouseRelated source material

Innocent BloodRelated source material

P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert WitnessRelated source material

The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray MysteryRelated source material

Trilogy of Death: Three Complete NovelsRelated source material

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