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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

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
Saucer
Cups
Memory
Memories
Love

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My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
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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.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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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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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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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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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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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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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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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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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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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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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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