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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.

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
Live
Must
Afford
Desert
Suffer
Survival
Suffering
Cannot

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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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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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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
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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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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
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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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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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