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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
Thinking
People
Education
Literature
Important
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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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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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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Raids are slightly constipating.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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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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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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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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