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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
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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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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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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My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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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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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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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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Education is not so important as people think.
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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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