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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
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Dublin city
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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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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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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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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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