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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life Picture Quote #1

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can Picture Quote #1

Writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility Picture Quote #1

Style is the thing that’s always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style Picture Quote #1

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible Picture Quote #1

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played Picture Quote #1

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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable Picture Quote #1

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town Picture Quote #1

Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience Picture Quote #1

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain Picture Quote #1

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved Picture Quote #1

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea Picture Quote #1

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do Picture Quote #1

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets Picture Quote #1

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one’s outlook; it only confirms one’s idea that one is unique Picture Quote #1

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone Picture Quote #1

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms Picture Quote #1

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it Picture Quote #1

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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better Picture Quote #1

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends Picture Quote #1

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There’s something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it’s a grandiose form of funk Picture Quote #1

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee Picture Quote #1

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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth’s almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights Picture Quote #1

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context Picture Quote #1

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces Picture Quote #1

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her Picture Quote #1

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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Style is the thing that’s always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) ... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) ... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one’s outlook; it only confirms one’s idea that one is unique (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) 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 (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) There’s something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it’s a grandiose form of funk (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth’s almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) 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 (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes)

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