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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
Elisabeth Bowen
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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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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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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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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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.
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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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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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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.
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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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The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
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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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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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