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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.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
Novelist
Radio Personality
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Cairo
Egypt
Penelope Low
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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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.
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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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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.
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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.
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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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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
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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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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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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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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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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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