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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
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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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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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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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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History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
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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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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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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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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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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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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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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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the process of reading is reciprocal the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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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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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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