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When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

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 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

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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Elizabeth Bowen

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Hope Irish Novelist

We are minor in everything but our passions - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

We are minor in everything but our passions

Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies

Elizabeth Bowen

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Art

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

Irish Novelist Truth

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden

Elizabeth Bowen

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique - 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

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

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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Loneliness Lonely

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

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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

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

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Greatness Irish Novelist

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

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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. - 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.

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Aid And Assistance

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

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

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

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Art

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

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Art Irish Novelist

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

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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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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 - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it

Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

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Children Irish Novelist

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Elizabeth Bowen

Irish Novelist Mystery

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Life

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality

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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Elizabeth Bowen

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Emotions Feelings

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

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.

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Life

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

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. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

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Education is not so important as people think. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Education is not so important as people think.

Elizabeth Bowen

Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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