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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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
Beauty
Crossings
Common
Bicycle
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Nothing
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
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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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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
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