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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
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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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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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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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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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