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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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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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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
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rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
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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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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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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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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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But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
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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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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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