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Dogs are a habit, I think.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Funny
Dog
Habit
Thinking
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Creeps
Fate
Eagle
Rat
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Minor
Passions
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Eye
Mysterious
Object
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Mixture
Statement
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Climax
Speak
Silences
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Great Country
Ireland
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Imagination
Grasping
Shadow
Live
Idea
Without
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Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Forgiveness
Should
States
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Life Always Look
Alarm
Cause
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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Truth
Speaks
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Jealousy
Jealous
Alone
Envy
Feeling Alone
Loneliness
Against
Enemies
Feeling
Smiling
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Love
Relationship
Valentine
Valentine's Day
Crush
Girlfriend
Saved
Coming
Start
Wishes
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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Main Thing
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Art
Smile
Goes On
Hurt
Memorable
One Thing
Stopped
Hurting
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Morning
Autumn
Early Morning
Spring
Winter
Close
Day
Early
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Door
Lie
Lock
Wholly
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Forlorn
Impossible
Lovers
Pity
Selfishness
Brief
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Narcissist
Own
Nobody
His
React
Terms
While
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Smile
Feelings
Literature
Spirituality
Feeling
Illusions
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Hub
Marry
Partly
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Alone
Committed
Talking
Quietly
Violations
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Difficulties
Internal
Mechanical
Outcome
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Women
Backwards
Intimacy
Literature
Revelations
Small Talk
Talk
Beginning
Ending
Small
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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Illustrating
Near
Tract
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
War
Brain
Cruelty
Fantasy
Toxic
Heated
Private
Start
World War
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Coins
Holes
Pockets
Friend
Help
Putting
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Oneself
Outlook
Unique
Meeting
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Innocent
Lie
Round
Meet
Seldom
Strewn
Victims
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Experience
Doe
Interesting
Understanding
Does
Begins
Itself
Fact
Hardly
In Fact
Till
Repeat
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Importance
Proportion
Actual
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Absence
Senses
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Respect
Feelings
Self
Self Respect
Wish
Lover
Tribal
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Granted
Greatness
Taken For Granted
Youth
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Shapes
Nowhere
Colours
Often
Degree
Happen
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Smile
Adequate
Heart
Limits
Hearts
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Burning
Effort
He Or She
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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.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Creator
Intent
Remain
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At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Experience
Childhood
Games
Garden
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Depression
Giants
Impossible
Sometimes
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With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Relationship
Money
Air
Two
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No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Experience
Character
Real
Years
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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Quality
Truth
Two
Years
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... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.
Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist
Dance
Conscious
Formal
Kind
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