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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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Regret
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
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... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
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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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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
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Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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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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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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The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.
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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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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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