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Education is not so important as people think.

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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Thinking
People
Education
Literature
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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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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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
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Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.
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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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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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