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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.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
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Cairo
Egypt
Penelope Low
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.
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Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
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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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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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