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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
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
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Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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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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Education is not so important as people think.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Raids are slightly constipating.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
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In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
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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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