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Doe Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
- Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
- Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
- Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing…
- The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined.
- The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.
- One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse…
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