Irish - Novelist | June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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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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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
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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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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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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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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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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
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