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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

«Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | About: Goodbye | Keywords: breed, bye, byes, distaste, good-bye
«Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem»
«Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | About: Fate | Keywords: creeps, eagle
«The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust»
«One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | Keywords: grasping, The Shadow
«There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | About: Children | Keywords: committed, no end, quietly, violations
«No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.»
«Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | Keywords: hostilities, molded
«Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms»
«Language is a mixture of statement and evocation»

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