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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

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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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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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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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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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.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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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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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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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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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
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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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Plot is the knowing of destination.
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