"Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another."

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Elizabeth Bowen

#Character Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
“I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.”
“Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.”
“When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.”
“Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.”
“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”
“One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.”
“Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.”

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