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

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
Great
Ireland
Married
Literature
Dies
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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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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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
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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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... 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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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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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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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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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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