Facts about Elizabeth Bowen

Occup.	Novelist
From	Ireland
Born	June 7, 1899
Died	February 22, 1973
Aged	73 years

Summary

Elizabeth Bowen was a famous Novelist from Ireland, who lived between June 7, 1899 and February 22, 1973. She became 73 years old.

Zodiac:

She is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 34 quotes who is written / told by Elizabeth, under the main topic Women.

34 Famous quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do"

Elizabeth Bowen

"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting"

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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies"

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

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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye"

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"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets"

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"Ireland is a great country to die or be married in"

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"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk"

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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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"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends"

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"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"

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"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things"

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"Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak"

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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible"

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

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"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it"

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"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have"

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

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"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea"

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

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"I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am"

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"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat"

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"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain"

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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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"Education is not so important as people think"

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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day"

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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written"

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"Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't"

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

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"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone"

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"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone"

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"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique"

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"Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought"

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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation"

Elizabeth Bowen