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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
Desert
Suffer
Survival
Suffering
Cannot
Live
Must
Afford

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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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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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...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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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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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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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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