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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
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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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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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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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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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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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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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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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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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Education is not so important as people think.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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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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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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