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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.
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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
Elizabeth Bowen
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
Elizabeth Bowen
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
Elizabeth Bowen
Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
Elizabeth Bowen
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Elizabeth Bowen
Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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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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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.
Elizabeth Bowen
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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