Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop (1978)

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Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.'
'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

Penelope Fitzgerald

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Penelope Fitzgerald

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

Penelope Fitzgerald