#we

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#i #over #until #well #write

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #during #empty #family #few

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

#arm #because #capable #even #i

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#concerned #cupboard #interfere #past #photograph

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane! ↗

— Bob Livingston

#by the time #champion #cotton #cotton fields #down

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. ↗

— Titus Livius

#carefully #concealed #end #fraudulent #generally

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead? ↗

— Jay Livingston

#asked #fell #grew #i #lies

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week? ↗

— Ron Livingston

#belong #club #corporate #did #last

The result showed that fortune helps the brave. ↗

— Titus Livius

#fortune #helps #result #showed

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. ↗

— Titus Livius

#freedom #had #king #old #over