D. James
D. James
fighting stupidity together
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.
fiction autobiography courses
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
commitment kitchen guilt
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
people violence excited
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
want energy shows
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
difficult generous
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
father men land
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.
order ideas guilt
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.
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.
loneliness more-time needed
Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.
writing scientist there-comes-a-time
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
cat animal merciful
We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other.
secret contentment want
The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
judgement may matter
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.