Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Relationship, Crush

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, People, Personality

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• In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Real Life, Novel

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Doe, Add, Novel

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• Silences can be as different as sounds.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Silence, Sound, Different

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• We are minor in everything but our passions.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Literature, Minors

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Success, Truth

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 1, ch. 5

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• memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Memories, Cups

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• life is a succession of readjustments.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Change, Life Is, Succession

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• 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

  Party, Intelligent, Doe

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Positive Attitude, Diversity

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Blow, Wind

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Men, Choices, Luck

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Pleasure, Spoilt

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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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

  Friendship, Inspiration, Pockets

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Two, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Literature, Outcomes, Language

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Break Up, Heart, Adequate

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Effort, Burning, Individual

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• nothing is more restful than conformity.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Conformity, Restful

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Thinking, Literature, Shows

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• 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

  Growing Up, Anger, Tree

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, People

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• Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Interesting, Understanding, Experience

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 1, ch. 1

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