36 Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen
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What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
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Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
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History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
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