Penelope Lively Quotes

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 17, 1933

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My mom is a typical mother.

Melissa Rivers

MotherMomTypical

I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?

John Wesley

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When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.

Amor Towles

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If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

Rory Stewart

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I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

Rupert Sanders

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A lone voice isn't as important as a collective voice.

Lois Frankel

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Very few of us have our special listening room where we close off the rest of the world and only hear the music. As musicians or as listeners, we're generally interacting with music wherever we are, whether we're on a train or on the street.

Jason Moran

MusicListeningWorldRestMusicians

The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.

Jared Cohen

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My foundation is jazz. I do all the things jazz musicians do.

Dianne Reeves

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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

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I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

Douglas Booth

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'Guitar Hero' was much more about us not innovating in a way that was appealing to audiences. It's not about oversaturating the market.

Bobby Kotick

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