What did Penelope Lively mean by: We all need a past – that’s where our sense of identity comes from. - Penelope Lively Author · Egypt Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10% - Masaaki Hatsumi Martial artist · Japan
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. Explain - Max Beerbohm Satirist and caricaturist · England
Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future. - Mehmet Murat Ildan Playwright and novelist · Turkey
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. - Jean Froissart Historian · Belgium
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God’s help I catch some. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
