It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes From Elizabeth Bowen The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant. Elizabeth Bowen vanity passion depth Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town. Elizabeth Bowen london war people Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate. Elizabeth Bowen hunger opera lasts This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom. Elizabeth Bowen flying freedom gold Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life. Elizabeth Bowen chance change imagination No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious. Elizabeth Bowen real character years At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played. Elizabeth Bowen childhood garden games ... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. Elizabeth Bowen unthinkable ornaments artist Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling. Elizabeth Bowen baby war peace Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate. Elizabeth Bowen house may world Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological. Elizabeth Bowen privacy people Autumn arrives in the early morning. Elizabeth Bowen autumn morning fall the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind. Elizabeth Bowen reading mind book Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out. Elizabeth Bowen pieces sake mind But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small. Elizabeth Bowen novelists purpose numbers Revenge was a very wild kind of justice. Elizabeth Bowen kind revenge justice I suspect victims; they win in the long run. Elizabeth Bowen winning running long Raids are slightly constipating. Elizabeth Bowen Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life. Elizabeth Bowen short-life cutting class I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make. Elizabeth Bowen pity care people
