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"The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on Scholars and Scholarship
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"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on Self-knowledge
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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."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on Biography
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"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on Writers and Writing
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"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on Writers and Writing
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