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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among 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
Among
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Walks
Free
History
People
Large

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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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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
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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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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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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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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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life is a succession of readjustments.
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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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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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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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