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Penelope Lively has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time…
• Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
• I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the…
• Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into…
• Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold…
• I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
• Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at…
• And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever…
• The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments,…
• We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
• I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers…
• All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to…

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