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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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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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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
Elizabeth Bowen
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
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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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No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.
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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
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Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
Elizabeth Bowen
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Elizabeth Bowen
We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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