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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.
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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