It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is … - P. D. James

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I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.

P. D. James

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

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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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