Penelope Lively Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

• I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

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  Memories, Way, Linear

• There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Preoccupation, Operations

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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