"[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet."

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Elizabeth Bowen

#Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'”
“I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.”
“If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.”
“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.”

Source : Robert Liparulo (2009). “House of Dark Shadows”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.”
“Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?”
“I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.”
“Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.”

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