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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.
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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Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
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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 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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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
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