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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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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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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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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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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 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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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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