Elizabeth Bowen Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Elizabeth Bowen quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Jun 7, 1899). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 37 we have for her.
“Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.”
“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.”
“Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.”
“Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.”
“The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.”
“The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.”
“Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.”
“Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.”
“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”
“There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”
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