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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
Education
Literature
Important
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Thinking
People

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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
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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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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
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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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