Quotes by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald
English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer
Alive from: 1916-2000
Category: Poets (Contemporary)
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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.
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
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