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“ Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best. ”

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I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

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Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

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P.d. James Encounters Romance

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

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P.d. James Death Sex Violence

Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.

~ P.d. James

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