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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
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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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Magnetize
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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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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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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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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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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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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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