"I didn't think I had anything particular to……" — Penelope Lively
"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
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52 Quotes by Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively has 52 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…
- 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…
- Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life…
- Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep…
- 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…
- And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you…
- The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred…
- 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…
- All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not…
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