Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, 1899 - 1973
From the cover of Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives
Born: 7 June 1899, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 22 February 1973, London, England, UK
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- A living dog's better than a dead lion. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - A World of Love (1955) - A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart (1938) - Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - Certain books come to meet one, as do people. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart (1939) - Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris (1935) - Goodbyes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say goodbye to; this hurts, you feel; this must not happen again. permalink
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. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk, without loss of esteem. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - Life is a succession of readjustments. permalink
Elizabeth Bowen - Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. permalink
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