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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

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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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People
Resounding
Instruments
Youth
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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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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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
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Darling, I don't want you I've got no place for you I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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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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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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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.
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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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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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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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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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