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Which Quotes by Penelope Lively
- I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
- I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
- I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture…
- I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a…
- It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and…
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