Penelope Lively Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• I'm not a 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

  Science, Past, Aspect

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2001.

• The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

  Penelope Lively

  Photography, Past, Bombs

• The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Years, Privacy

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.174, Penguin

• Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Perception, Suits

• We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Identity, Needs

• 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

  Past, Fiction, Tricky

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