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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk Picture Quote #1

I think the main thing, don’t you, is to keep the show on the road Picture Quote #1

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought Picture Quote #1

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone Picture Quote #1

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities Picture Quote #1

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice Picture Quote #1

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home Picture Quote #1

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain Picture Quote #1

... there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady Picture Quote #1

The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon Picture Quote #1

Solitary and farouche people don’t have relationships; they are quite unrelatable Picture Quote #1

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk Picture Quote #1

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On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do Picture Quote #1

We can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height Picture Quote #1

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children Picture Quote #1

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child Picture Quote #1

Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold Picture Quote #1

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing Picture Quote #1

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Sacrificers... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they’re able to do without Picture Quote #1

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt Picture Quote #1

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could Picture Quote #1

In my experience one thing you don’t learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along Picture Quote #1

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again Picture Quote #1

One can suffer a convulsion of one’s entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It’s not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other’s existences Picture Quote #1

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Don’t you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same Picture Quote #1

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected Picture Quote #1

Somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down Picture Quote #1

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place 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

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else Picture Quote #1

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) I think the main thing, don’t you, is to keep the show on the road (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) ... there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Solitary and farouche people don’t have relationships; they are quite unrelatable (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) We can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Sacrificers... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they’re able to do without (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) In my experience one thing you don’t learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) One can suffer a convulsion of one’s entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It’s not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other’s existences (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Don’t you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) Somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes) People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place (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) What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else (Elizabeth Bowen Quotes)

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