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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

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
Must
Love
Wary
Sweetest
Habit
Passion
Part
May

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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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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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