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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
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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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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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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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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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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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
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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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Darling, I don't want you I've got no place for you I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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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.
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At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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