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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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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.
Penelope Lively
If people don't read, that's their choice a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
Penelope Lively
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Penelope Lively
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
Penelope Lively
Grief-stricken. Stricken is right it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground pitched out of life and into something else.
Penelope Lively
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
Penelope Lively
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
Penelope Lively
History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
Penelope Lively
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
Penelope Lively
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
Penelope Lively
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
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.
Penelope Lively
I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
Penelope Lively
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
Penelope Lively
the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.
Penelope Lively
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
Penelope Lively
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Penelope Lively
I rather like getting away from fiction.
Penelope Lively
