What did Penelope Lively mean by: Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. - 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
+ 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
+ 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 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
+ 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
+ We all need a past – that’s where our sense of identity comes from. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Identity, Past, 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
+ It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Penelope Lively, Choices, Everything Happens For A Reason, 0 - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt
Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Explain - Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
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