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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

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
Marry
Fiction
Keep
Women
Things
Hub
Partly

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Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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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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She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
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rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
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Raids are slightly constipating.
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