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Dogs are a habit, I 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
Dogs
Dog
Habit
Funny
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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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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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.
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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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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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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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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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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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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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