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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Dublin city
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Darling, I don't want you I've got no place for you I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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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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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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Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
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rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
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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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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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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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