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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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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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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My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
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... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
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Plot is the knowing of destination.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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Education is not so important as people think.
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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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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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in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
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