What did Penelope Lively mean by: It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt Copy
+ Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Boys, Children, War, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
+ If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Mets, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
+ Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Logic, Messages, Stuff, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
+ Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Curiosity, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
+ I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Dawn, Innocent, Moments, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
+ Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Atoms, Language, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
+ History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Circumstances, History, Natural, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
+ I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Character, Occupation, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. - Jeane Kirkpatrick Political scientist and diplomat
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think. - Jenna Marbles Entertainer · USA
