Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being … - P. D. James

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And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

P. D. James

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

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I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

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to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. . . . the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

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I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

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