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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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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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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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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.
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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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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
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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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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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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.
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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
Elizabeth Bowen
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
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Education is not so important as people think.
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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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