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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• 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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• Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Clever, Stupid, Party

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Degrees, Literature, Shapes

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

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• But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Littles, Waste, Firsts

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The House In Paris”, p.214, Random House

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, People, Personality

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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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• 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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• Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Subjects

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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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• life is a succession of readjustments.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Change, Life Is, Succession

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Doe, Add, Novel

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Ideas, Roots, May

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Silence, Speak, Climax

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

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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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• 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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