Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
Irish Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 7, 1899
Date of Death:
February 22, 1973
Nationality:
Irish
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Related Authors:
James Joyce
Laurence Sterne
Robert Graves
Maria Edgeworth
Edna O'Brien
Brian Moore
George A. Moore
Joyce Cary
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Select Elizabeth Bowen Quotations:
Education is not so important as people think.
Elizabeth Bowen
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
Elizabeth Bowen
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Quote Keywords:

Coming,
Love,
Out,
Saved,
Someone,
Start,
Up,
Wishes,
Your
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Dictionary Links:

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Saved,
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All Elizabeth Bowen Quotations:
All your youth you want to...
Art is one thing that can...
Autumn arrives in early morning, but...
Education is not so important as...
Experience isn't interesting until it begins...
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty...
Fate is not an eagle, it...
I became, and remain, my characters...
I think the main thing, don't...
If a theme or idea is...
If you look at life one...
Illusions are art, for the feeling...
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning...
Ireland is a great country to...
It is not helpful to help...
Jealousy is no more than feeling...
Language is a mixture of statement...
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome...
Meeting people unlike oneself does not...
Never to lie is to have...
No object is mysterious. The mystery...
Nobody can be kinder than the...
Nobody speaks the truth when there...
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale...
One can live in the shadow...
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it...
Silences have a climax, when you...
That is partly why women marry...
The best that an individual can...
The heart may think it knows...
The importance to the writer of...
The innocent are so few that...
The wish to lead out one's...
There is no end to the...
We are minor in everything but...
When you love someone all your...
Who is ever adequate? We all...
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