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Phyllis Dorothy James, known professionally as P. D. James, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014) was an English crime writer.
She became famous for a series of detective novels whose protagonist is police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.

According to her “What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order”

Some quotes:

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and        to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”
  “We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can’t share        either experience”
  “Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”
  “History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.”

  “What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.”