I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true. Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes From Elizabeth Bowen Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen envy jealousy loneliness Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with. Elizabeth Bowen purpose knowing may She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her. Elizabeth Bowen girl photograph expression Disappointment tears the bearable film off life. Elizabeth Bowen film tears disappointment There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. Elizabeth Bowen desperation hope expectations Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen spring time morning Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them. Elizabeth Bowen luxury girl knowing 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. Elizabeth Bowen adequate break-up heart One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Elizabeth Bowen shadow educational ideas 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. Elizabeth Bowen different-faces men two If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen positive-attitude diversity life Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another. Elizabeth Bowen crafts character fiction Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. Elizabeth Bowen hurt memorable art somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down. Elizabeth Bowen party intelligent doe To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. Elizabeth Bowen walks history people Dogs are a habit, I think. Elizabeth Bowen dog funny thinking Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen truth success life The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. Elizabeth Bowen literature writing firsts Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company. Elizabeth Bowen loneliness running long I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again. Elizabeth Bowen air children art
