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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.
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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A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
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The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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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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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane another won't get over the right stile.
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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