Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Elizabeth Bowen quotes, Elizabeth Bowen sayings, and Elizabeth Bowen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.Elizabeth Bowen
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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.Elizabeth Bowen
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Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.Elizabeth Bowen
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Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.Elizabeth Bowen
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no contextElizabeth Bowen
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.Elizabeth Bowen
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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.Elizabeth Bowen
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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
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.Elizabeth Bowen
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.Elizabeth Bowen
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.Elizabeth Bowen
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.Elizabeth Bowen
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Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.Elizabeth Bowen
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.Elizabeth Bowen
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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.Elizabeth Bowen
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.Elizabeth Bowen
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.Elizabeth Bowen
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.Elizabeth Bowen
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.Elizabeth Bowen
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The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.Elizabeth Bowen
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.Elizabeth Bowen
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.Elizabeth Bowen
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Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.Elizabeth Bowen
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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.Elizabeth Bowen
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.Elizabeth Bowen
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Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.Elizabeth Bowen
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Dialogue should show the relationships among people.Elizabeth Bowen
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.Elizabeth Bowen
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Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.Elizabeth Bowen
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.Elizabeth Bowen
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