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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

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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Certain
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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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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Education is not so important as people think.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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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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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
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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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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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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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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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