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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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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Anything
Hidden
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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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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She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
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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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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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