If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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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.Catherine Drinker Bowen
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Chamber music a conversation between friends.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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