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Memory must be patchy what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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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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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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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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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 novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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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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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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Raids are slightly constipating.
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The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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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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