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Elizabeth Bowen quotes

Irish Novelist June 7, 1899 – February 22, 1973

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Elizabeth Bowen quote: "The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of..."
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both..."
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "We are minor in everything but our passions."
We are minor in everything but our passions. Elizabeth Bowen
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. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Elizabeth Bowen
Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was..."
...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of..."
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself...."
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Elizabeth Bowen
I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them."
Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always..."
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen

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