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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
Life
Conceited
Narcissism
Kinder
Conceit
React
Terms
Nobody
Term
Narcissist

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Darling, I don't want you I've got no place for you I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
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The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
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Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
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I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
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The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
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She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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