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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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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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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
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A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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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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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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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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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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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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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
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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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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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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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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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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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