Elizabeth Bowen quotes Born: 01/07/1899 Died: 02/22/1973 Country: ireland

• No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• 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)
• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• 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)
• There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• We are minor in everything but our passions. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• 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)

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