What did Penelope Lively mean by: Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. - François Rabelais Author · France
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
The only reason that they say, ‘Women and children first’ is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
