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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Children
Thing
Never
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Regret

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... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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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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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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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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