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P. D. James Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: August 3, 1920 - November 27, 2014

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Life Nature Memory Perfect More

The problem with my mother is that she didn't go to the doctor. And I think by the time she started to show symptoms that something might not be right, and finally went to the doctor, she was so close to her death that she couldn't get the care she had needed. Her big issue was not going to the doctor.

Andie MacDowell

Mother Time Death Doctor Think Care

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Robert J. Shiller

Seeing Meeting Distance Oppression

I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Love People Me Listening Urgency

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Brainy Responsible Snowflake Ever

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

Good Good Company First Company Ever

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

Love Home Opportunity Myself Best

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Experience Me Thinking Letters Him

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

Life God Unique Harmony Places Our

I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.

Feel My Own Own Things Quarterback

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Information Want Personal Without

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Television Entertainment Much Very

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Education Knowledge Purpose College

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