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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.
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
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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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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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
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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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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane another won't get over the right stile.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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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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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.
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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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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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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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Raids are slightly constipating.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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