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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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
Art
Thing
Mattering
Hurting
Memorable
Stopped
Hurt
Artist

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life is a succession of readjustments.
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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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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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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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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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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
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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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Plot is the knowing of destination.
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Memory must be patchy what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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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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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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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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