Bowen

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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 (1899–1973)

    Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thriven ... on the changes and chances, the dislocations and ... contrasts which have made up so much of my life.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts: it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called “eternal.” What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)