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It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
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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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
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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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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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People die, but money never does.
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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
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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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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
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All history, of course, is the history of wars.
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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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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If people don't read, that's their choice a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
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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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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
Penelope Lively
History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
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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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I rather like getting away from fiction.
Penelope Lively
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
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