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Author - Penelope Lively
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aging
Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations,....
world
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do....
photo
I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village....
children
Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things that....
ebooks
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless....
memories
The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view....
gifts
Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep....
memory
But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that....
language
The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.....
Social Change
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain....
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