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I suspect victims they win in the long run.

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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Winning
Running
Long
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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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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
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With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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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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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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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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But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
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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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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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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.
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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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