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

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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
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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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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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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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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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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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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