P. D. James Quotes About Devices

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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.
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P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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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?
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P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.158, Vintage

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Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
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P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.505, Vintage

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