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Penelope Lively quotes about past

English Author March 17, 1933

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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
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."
My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined. Penelope Lively
A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery Penelope Lively
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. Penelope Lively
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively quote: "We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes..."
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. Penelope Lively

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