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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

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


Quote Keywords:

Grasping, Idea, Live, Shadow, Without
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Grasping, Idea, Live, Shadow, Without
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