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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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True
Young
People
Resounding

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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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Plot is the knowing of destination.
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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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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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