Penelope Fitzgerald

Quotes

• “The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.”
• “Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.”
• “There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.”
• “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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Key facts

Born

Penelope Mary Knox , ( 1916-12-17 ) 17 December 1916, Lincoln, England

Died

28 April 2000 (2000-04-28) (aged 83), London, England

Occupation

Writer

Period

20th century

Notable works

Offshore (1979) The Blue Flower (1995)

Notable awards

Booker Prize (1979) National Book Critics Circle Award (1997)

Spouse

Desmond Fitzgerald ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; died 1976 ) ​

Parents

E. V. Knox (father), Mary Shepard (step-mother)

Relatives

Wilfred Knox (uncle) Ronald Knox (uncle) Dilly Knox (uncle) Winifred Peck (aunt)

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