Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Children
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
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When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.
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The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.
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I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.
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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
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Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.
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