Elizabeth Bowen Quotes - Page 8

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Conceited, Narcissism

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

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• Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The House In Paris”, p.88, Random House

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• Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Feelings, Moments, Driven

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Heat Of The Day”, p.55, Random House

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• Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Running, Time, People

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• The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Vanity, Depth

  Elizabeth Bowen (1949). “The cat jumps, and other stories”

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• 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

  Love, Lonely, Pain

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

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• Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Ties, Remember, Tradition

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

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• Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Essence, Finals, Poetic

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• 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

  Garden, Games, Childhood

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• I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Care, Pity

  Elizabeth Bowen (1942). “Seven winters”

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• Autumn arrives in the early morning.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

  'The Death of the Heart' (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

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• A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Home, Firsts, Succeed

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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• Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, People, Should

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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

  Taken, Greatness, Want

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

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• Plot is the knowing of destination.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Knowing, Plot, Destination

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Holiday, Talking, Ideas

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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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sacrifice, Able, Way

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• Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  House, World, May

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• I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Conflict, Feels, I Can

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• ...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Power, Void, Dangerous

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• Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, People, Suffering

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.205, Random House

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• writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  States, Subjects, Susceptibility

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• The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Book, Reading

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

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• Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Plot, Should

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

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