Penelope Lively

Chanakya Neeti - Eleventh Chapter , English Proverb , Manning Barish , Arabic Proverb , Chanakya Neeti - Third Chapter

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You learn a lot, writing fiction.

Penelope Lively
learn , writing
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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

Penelope Lively
read , greek , mythology
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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

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make , choices , constantly
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

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need , past , where
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We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

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act , links , between , other
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Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

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unless , am , part , everything
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively
preoccupation , memory , operation
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present the time bomb in the cupboard.

Penelope Lively
photograph , concerned , power
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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

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consideration , change , over
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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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

Penelope Lively
always , been , fascinated
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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
now , agnostic , grew
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I rather like getting away from fiction.

Penelope Lively
rather , like , getting
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

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like , fictional , character
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

Penelope Lively
write , anything , until