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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.
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
Temperament
Everything
Dread
Void
Forced
Loving
Dispossessed
Materially
Dangerous
Prefers
Either
Operate
Power
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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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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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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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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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Raids are slightly constipating.
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The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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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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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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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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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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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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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
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The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen
