Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgeraldwas a Booker Prize–winning English 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, as one of "the ten best historical novels"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 December 1916
exactly external people
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.
strong mean opportunity
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy—for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?
punishment unjust forgotten
An unjust punishment is never forgotten.
science gossip scientist
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
dark glasses mad
Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
moments duty
Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.