Penelope Lively Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Different, London, Revolutionary

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

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• I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

  Penelope Lively

  Writing, Wells

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

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• I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

  Penelope Lively

  Kings, Grateful, Agnostic

  "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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• If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, People

  Penelope Lively (2011). “How It All Began”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Want, Made

  "'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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• 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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• People die, but money never does.

  Penelope Lively

  Money, People, Doe

  Penelope Lively (2007). “City of the Mind”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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