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“The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited hima subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be capturedcaptured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“... 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 (18971973)
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