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Quotes of Elizabeth Bowen (Ireland)1897-1973 American Author
Elizabeth Bowen Photo and Biography
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. (conceit)
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. (emotions)
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (fate)
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. (growth)
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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. (greatness)
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. (memory)
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. (lovers)
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. (love)
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. (intimacy)
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. (lies and lying)
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. (jealousy)
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. (seasons)
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. (absence)
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. (absence)
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting. (arts and artists)
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