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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
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Narcissism
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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
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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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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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