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Brief about Elizabeth Bowen: By info that we know Elizabeth Bowen was born at 1970-01-01. And also Elizabeth Bowen is Irish Novelist.

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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Tags: Friend, Help, Helpful

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Tags: Language, Mixture, Statement

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Tags: Alone, Door, Lie

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Tags: Nobody, Speaks, Truth

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Tags: Happen, Happening, Often

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

Tags: Grasping, Idea, Shadow

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Tags: Hope, Impossible, Lovers

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Tags: Keep, Why, Women

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

Tags: Few, Innocent, Lie

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.

Tags: Feeling, Loved, Wish

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Tags: Alone, Children, End

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.

Tags: Break, Create, Hearts

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

Tags: Love, Someone, Start

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Tags: Minor, Passions

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Tags: Alone, Feeling, Jealousy

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Tags: Life, Nobody, While

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Tags: Morning, Spring, Winter

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Tags: Value, Writer, Writing

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Tags: Granted, Greatness, Youth

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Tags: Brain, Start, War
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