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Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.
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
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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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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... 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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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane another won't get over the right stile.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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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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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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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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