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Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form logic a message.
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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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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I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
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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 preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
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