Phyllis Dorothy James citáty

Phyllis Dorothy James, baronka z Holland Parku, OBE , známá jako P. D. Jamesová, byla anglická spisovatelka detektivních příběhů a doživotní členka britské Sněmovny lordů za Konzervativní stranu. Proslavila se hlavně díky detektivním románům s postavou detektiva a básníka Adama Dalglieshe. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. srpen 1920 – 27. listopad 2014
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“You're going to have to, Xan. You may have to kill her, too.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.”

Paris Review (1995), as cited in The Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations (2011), ed. Susan Ratcliffe, Oxford University Press, p. 250 : ISBN 0199609128
Other

“If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

Zdroj: The Children of Men (1992), Chapter 1.

“I don't think God bargains.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.”

Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

Dr. Theodore Faron About Xan.
The Children of Men (1992)

“Darling, you can't promise that…but I like to hear you say it.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“Every novelist write what he or she needs to write, a subconscious compulsion to express and explain his unique view of reality.”

Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography Faber & Faber, London 1999.
Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“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.”

Interview with Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph, 26 Sep 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6227400/PD-James-Queen-of-Detective-Fiction-Interview.html.
Other

“We do. The question is, how do you?”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

Woolvington.
The Children of Men (1992)

“I don't want to kill you.”

P. D. James kniha The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

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