Elizabeth Bowen Quote

"What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it." But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.


The Last September (1929)


What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never...

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never...

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never...

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never...