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Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
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
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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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the process of reading is reciprocal the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
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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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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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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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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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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
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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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