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Education is not so important as people think.

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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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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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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 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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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
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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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With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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