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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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Pressing
Stories
Impression
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Perception
Enough
Spring
Must
Writer
Giving
Imagination
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Pleasure
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Story
Magnetize
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Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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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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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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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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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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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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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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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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