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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.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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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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At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
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Education is not so important as people think.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
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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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in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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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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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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