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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

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
Necessary
Emotion
Feelings
Home
Exalted
Sentiments
Build

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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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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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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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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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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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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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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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