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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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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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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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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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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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the process of reading is reciprocal the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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Education is not so important as people think.
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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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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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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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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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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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