Elizabeth Bowen - Life Quotes

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Elizabeth Bowen
Life is a succession of readjustments.

Elizabeth Bowen
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Elizabeth Bowen
Gerald's straight, round writing had, to her imagination, a queer totter, like someone running for life in tight shoes.

Elizabeth Bowen
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Elizabeth Bowen
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Elizabeth Bowen
In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

Elizabeth Bowen
Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

Elizabeth Bowen
No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.

Elizabeth Bowen
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Elizabeth Bowen
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

Elizabeth Bowen