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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
Doe
Recount
Adds
Add
Novel
Simply
Experience

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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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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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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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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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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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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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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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