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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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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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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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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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the process of reading is reciprocal the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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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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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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History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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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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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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