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Inspirational Quotes by Penelope Lively
- Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
- 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.
- I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
- We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
- It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
- I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
- I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
- Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
- I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
- All history, of course, is the history of wars.
- We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
- I rather like getting away from fiction.
- You learn a lot, writing fiction.
- Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
- If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
- Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento