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From Quotes by Penelope Lively
- 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 that, in which…
- Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in…
- We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
- I rather like getting away from fiction.
- 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…
- Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
- The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked…
- In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As…
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