“I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.” PeopleKnowsWayStillsFactsKnow HowAliveMembersCome UpClubsRemindingInviting Book:Original Sin Source: Original Sin
“There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.” WayMomentsPastRegretIllusionGainsImmortalityNo PointAltered Book:Time to Be in Earnest Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!” WayBelieveFormPoliticalI BelieveMorningFiveFourGet UpBreakfastFascismPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessStart The Day Author:P. D. James
“I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.” WayHumansIdeasOrderMysteryGuiltHuman LifeDisorderSanityIrrational 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.” MenWorldWaySpiritFatherSpeakLandMovedIllStrangenessTerminally Ill Book:The Children of Men Source: The Children of Men
“I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.” WayCommitmentTablesGuiltKitchenAvoidingKitchen Table Book:The Children of Men Source: The Children of Men
