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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

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P. D. James

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

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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.

Choose, Create, Disorder, Order, Thinking, Wish

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.

Looks, Memories, Passage, Past, Prose, Rediscovers

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

English, Fall, Life, Memories, Memory, Occur

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

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I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

Beneath, Facts, Skin, Skins, Skull, Skulls
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