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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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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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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But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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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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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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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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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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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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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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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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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
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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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