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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.

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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Unnerved
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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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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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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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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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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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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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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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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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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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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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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