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... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.

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
Littles
Ahead
Little
Large
Nothing
Problems
Looks
Quite
Writing
Impossible
Unduly
Though
Loom
Easy
Inherent
Problem
Appears

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