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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

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
Revenge
Wild
Justice
Kind

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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Darling, I don't want you I've got no place for you I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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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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Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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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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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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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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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane another won't get over the right stile.
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... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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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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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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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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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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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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