All Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Elizabeth Bowen
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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
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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.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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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.
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
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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.
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