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Penelope Lively Inspirational Quotes (35)

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History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
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There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.
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All history, of course, is the history of wars.
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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