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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
Elizabeth Bowen
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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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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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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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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life is a succession of readjustments.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Elizabeth Bowen
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
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In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
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Plot is the knowing of destination.
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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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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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Raids are slightly constipating.
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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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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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