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I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
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Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
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We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
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I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass.
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I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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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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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
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Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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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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Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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If people don't read, that's their choice a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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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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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
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People die, but money never does.
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