Elizabeth Bowen - Quotes
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ---->>>
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. ---->>>
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. ---->>>
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. ---->>>
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. ---->>>
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. ---->>>
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. ---->>>
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. ---->>>
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ---->>>
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ---->>>
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. ---->>>
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. ---->>>
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. ---->>>
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. ---->>>
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. ---->>>
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. ---->>>
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ---->>>
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. ---->>>
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. ---->>>
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. ---->>>
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ---->>>
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. ---->>>
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ---->>>
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. ---->>>
Education is not so important as people think. ---->>>
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. ---->>>
Biography
Elizabeth Bowen, CBE (; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish novelist and short story writer.(wikipedia)