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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
Writer
Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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