Elizabeth Bowen Quotes - Page 2

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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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• The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Country, Nature, Silence

  "The Death Of The Heart".

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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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• My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn (2010). “Listening in: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen”, p.3, Edinburgh University Press

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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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• 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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• Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Inspirational, Courage, Empowerment

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, People

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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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• Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Knowing, Purpose, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Women, Literature, Intimacy

  "The Death of the Heart". Book by Elizabeth Bowen, 1938.

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• No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Eye, Vision, Mysterious

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

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• The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Writing, Novelists

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Time, Spring

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

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• one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Trouble, Should, Difficulty

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• Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Light, Junk

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• Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Silence, Stranger, Taxi

  Elizabeth Bowen (1952). “The house in Paris”

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• 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

  Respect, Self, Feelings

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

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• Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Found

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Educational, Ideas, Shadow

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• nothing is more restful than conformity.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Conformity, Restful

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Freedom, Flying, Gold

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• Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Boys, Pigs

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Said, Turns

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Men, Two, Different Faces

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

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