Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
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Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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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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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality
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Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
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What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.