Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

• Para el escritor nato, nada es tan sanador como darse cuenta de que ha dado con la palabra adecuada.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Healing, Writing, Realization

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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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  Life, Kindness, Writing

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• What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

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  Needs, Empty

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• Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

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  Alive, Want, Knows

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• I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

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  Adversity, Artist, Treasure

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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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  Essence, History, Mind

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• If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

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  Art, Vision, Purpose

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

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  Artist, Thinking, Hours

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• In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

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  Mistake, Eye, Giving

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

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  Writing, Kind

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• Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

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  Friendship, Chamber Music, Conversation

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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.

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  Friendship, Mistake, Women

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• It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

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  Peace, Heart, Guests

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

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  Work, Pioneers, Lighthouse

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1945). “Yankee from Olympus”

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• People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

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  Thinking, People, Soul

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• your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

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  Música, juego, sudor

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Knowledge, Men, Identity

  Commencement Speech by Anna Quindlen, www.mtholyoke.edu. 1999.

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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.

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  Writing, Black, Ink

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• Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

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  Time, Art, Treasure

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

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  Women, Eight, Careers

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• Una de las características del verdadero genio es la abundancia. Una abundancia rica, lo bastante para indigestar a la gente corriente. Los grandes artistas lo hacen en rollos, en retazos. Cubren techos enteros con pinturas, esculpen la ladera de una montaña en piedra, no escriben una novela sino una estantería llena. Por lo tanto, algunas de sus obras son mejores que otras. Hasta un tercio puede ser bastante malo. ¿Deberíamos decir que esta desigualdad es la marca de su humanidad, de su orgullosa mortalidad y de su inmortalidad?

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  Writing, Artist, People

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• Hay un maravilloso giro y truco en la arrogancia británica; su aparente inconsciencia la hace el doble de eficaz.

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  Workout, Arrogance, British

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Todas las demás artes son solitarias. Pintamos solos: mi cuadro, mi interpretación del cielo. Mi poema, mi novela. Pero en la música, en conjunto, no en solitario, compartimos. Nada de altruismo, pues recibimos diez veces más de lo que damos.

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  Music, Lonely, Art

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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