Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
December 17, 1916 – April, 28, 2000.

Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower one of "the ten best historical novels".

Also known as Poet, Essayist, Biographer

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald
- People
- World
- Words
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

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- True

The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.

Penelope Fitzgerald
- Mind
- Party
There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.

Penelope Fitzgerald
He struggled to keep his temper. It struck him that both Marta and Chiara took advantage of him by attacking him with their ignorance, or call it innocence. A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.

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- Thinking
- Respect
- Serious
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.

Penelope Fitzgerald
- People
- Drug