All Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
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
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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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.
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