Best quotes by Penelope Lively on Past

Checkout quotes by Penelope Lively on Past

• ‟ I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

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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.

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• ‟ We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

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• ‟ Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

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• ‟ The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

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