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Elizabeth Bowen

"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."

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"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."

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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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Amber Hurdle

"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
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"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
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