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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
Literature
Important
Think
Thinking
People
Education

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the process of reading is reciprocal the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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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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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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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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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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After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
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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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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
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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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Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
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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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