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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

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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
Dialogue
Perhaps
Deals
Writing
Something
Good
Unprecedented

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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.
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