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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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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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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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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
Elizabeth Bowen
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
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No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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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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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
Elizabeth Bowen
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
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