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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

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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
Bearable
Disappointment
Tears
Film
Life

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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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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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