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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

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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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Rome
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
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In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
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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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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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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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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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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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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.
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in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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