Bowen

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    Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ...
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    ... research is never completed ... Around the corner lurks another possibility of interview, another book to read, a courthouse to explore, a document to verify.
    —Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)