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life is a succession of readjustments.

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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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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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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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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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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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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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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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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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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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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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Education is not so important as people think.
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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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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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