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Penelope Lively quotes

English Author March 17, 1933

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Penelope Lively quote: "Matt only knew that he was entirely happy, wholly in love, and..."
Matt only knew that he was entirely happy, wholly in love, and that years of this rolled ahead, waiting for him. Penelope Lively
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 plain one. Penelope Lively
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without. Penelope Lively
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. Penelope Lively
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. Penelope Lively
I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly through the days, knowing nothing, whom I saw now with awful wisdom. ... I had hesitated to make this journey, had put it off year after year but had known always that eventually it must be undertaken. And, confronted at last with the mirage -- with the shining phantom of that other time -- I was surprised to find that it was myself that was the poignant presence. Penelope Lively
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 I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster... Penelope Lively
His prime resource is the leaky vessel of is own memory. At times he views it thus, quite literally- as some old pail with holes and rusted seams. Alternatively, he imagines an extensive manuscript of which there survive only a handful of charred fragments; it is like trying to piece together the Gospels from the Dead Sea Scrolls.... Penelope Lively
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 a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That,... Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "The consideration of change over the century is about loss,..."
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. Penelope Lively
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 then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. Penelope Lively
I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine? a romanticized story full of clich images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time fo? Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has..."
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our..."
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should..."
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country. Penelope Lively

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