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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

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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
Literature
Dies
Country
Great
Ireland
Married

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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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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
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History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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the process of reading is reciprocal the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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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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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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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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... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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