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Dogs are a habit, I 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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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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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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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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Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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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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Raids are slightly constipating.
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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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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
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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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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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