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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Elizabeth Bowen

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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About Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen CBE (; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.