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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

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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
Experience
Doe
Recount
Adds
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Novel
Simply

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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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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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Education is not so important as people think.
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
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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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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.
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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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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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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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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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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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