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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

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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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Transposed
Autobiography
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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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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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.
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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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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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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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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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Memory must be patchy what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.
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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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