Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Literature
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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Education is not so important as people think.
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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