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Elizabeth Bowen

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

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"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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