All Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
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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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
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