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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.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
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Penelope Low
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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You learn a lot, writing 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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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
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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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History unravels circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
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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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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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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
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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 do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
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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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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
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All history, of course, is the history of wars.
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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'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
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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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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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People die, but money never does.
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