to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.
P. D. JamesHuman kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P. D. JamesBut what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
P. D. JamesSuicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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