Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.

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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

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

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

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

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

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Pity the selfishness of lovers it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.

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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

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Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.

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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

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No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eyes.

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Who is ever adequate We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

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Let's face it -- who ever is adequate We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

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