Elizabeth Bowen Short Quotes

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Life is a succession of readjustments.

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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice...

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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

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Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

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I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

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Very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

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Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

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But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

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

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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

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One should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

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To leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

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Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

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She longed to occupy people's fancies, speculations and thoughts.

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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

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Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

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Children like change — for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft...

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There must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

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'You certainly are not yourself to-day.' 'I so seldom am,' said Cecilia.

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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

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The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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There are no half measures. We either have dinner or telephone the police.

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The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

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