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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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
Every
Cutting
Life
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Boldly
Society
Shortcomings
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Sins
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Sin
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
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The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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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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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
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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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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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