Philippa Pearce famous quotes

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  • Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

  • It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

  • What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.

  • We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

  • I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

  • In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

  • Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

  • Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

  • If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

  • To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.