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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

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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
Abstract
Exist
Fashion
Seems
Persons
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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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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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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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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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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
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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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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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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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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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life is a succession of readjustments.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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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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