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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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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Dishonesty
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Nobody
Lying
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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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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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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Darling, I don't want you I've got no place for you I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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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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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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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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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
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