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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.
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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I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Memory must be patchy what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.
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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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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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