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.
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing. - Penelope Lively
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
- Penelope Lively
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
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.
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
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.
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 pl… - 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 pl…
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. - Penelope Lively
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a p… - Penelope Lively
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a p…
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. - Penelope Lively
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. - Penelope Lively
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. - Penelope Lively
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
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