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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye Picture Quote #1

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it Picture Quote #1

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak Picture Quote #1

We are minor in everything but our passions Picture Quote #1

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them Picture Quote #1

Nobody speaks the truth when there’s something they must have Picture Quote #1

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Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another Picture Quote #1

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning Picture Quote #1

Dogs are a habit, I think Picture Quote #1

Certain books come to meet me, as do people Picture Quote #1

We have really no absent friends Picture Quote #1

Makes of men date, like makes of car Picture Quote #1

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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have Picture Quote #1

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time Picture Quote #1

But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing Picture Quote #1

I became, and remain, my characters’ close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am Picture Quote #1

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things Picture Quote #1

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round Picture Quote #1

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The wish to lead out one’s lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one’s self-respect Picture Quote #1

She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips Picture Quote #1

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance Picture Quote #1

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man Picture Quote #1

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak Picture Quote #1

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make Picture Quote #1

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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write Picture Quote #1

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem Picture Quote #1

The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader’s mind Picture Quote #1

The wish to lead out one’s lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one’s self-respect Picture Quote #1

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant Picture Quote #1

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day Picture Quote #1

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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) We are minor in everything but our passions (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Nobody speaks the truth when there’s something they must have (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Dogs are a habit, I think (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Certain books come to meet me, as do people (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) We have really no absent friends (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Makes of men date, like makes of car (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) I became, and remain, my characters’ close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The wish to lead out one’s lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one’s self-respect (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) ... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader’s mind. (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The wish to lead out one’s lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one’s self-respect. (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes)

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