D. James
D. James
difficult generous
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
want energy shows
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
commitment kitchen guilt
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
fiction autobiography courses
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
dying remember cease
A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.
stars intelligent credit
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.
grief terrible over-it
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
giving gossip commodity
gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
forgiveness unforgivable forgiven
the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.
sex taken emotional
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
love-always
Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.
fiction belief moral
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.
order detectives restoration
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
years literature care
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.