every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making? Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes From Elizabeth Bowen Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. Elizabeth Bowen Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. Elizabeth Bowen Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen
