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! P. D. James More Quotes by P. D. James More Quotes From P. D. James All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. P. D. James autobiography courses fiction Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. P. D. James increase raw-materials crafts You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir? P. D. James childhood kind people [My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible. P. D. James equality skills father Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love. P. D. James fear perfect may 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. P. D. James guilt order ideas The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid. P. D. James teaching faith people Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. P. D. James pleasure reading book We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. P. D. James funny-friendship sarcastic war It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. P. D. James judgement matter may Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you. P. D. James publishers nurse writing Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. P. D. James pain broken life Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity. P. D. James senses confusing identity 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. P. D. James regret writing men Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. P. D. James superficial moments may The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics. P. D. James political-theory political theory First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries. P. D. James luxury class pay Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. P. D. James kindness may firsts Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious. P. D. James bad-writing discrimination writing Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers. P. D. James office cities country
