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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
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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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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History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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