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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
Books
Reading
Certain
Book
Come
People
Meet

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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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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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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Plot is the knowing of destination.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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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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A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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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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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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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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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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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
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