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All Quotes by author - Elizabeth Bowen

" All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. "

" Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. "

" Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. "

" Education is not so important as people think. "

" Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. "

" Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. "

" Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. "

" I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. "

" If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. "

" If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. "

" Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. "

" Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. "

" Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. "

" I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. "

" It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. "

" Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. "

" Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. "

" Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. "

" Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. "

" Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. "

" Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. "

" Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. "

" No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. "

" Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. "

" One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. "

" Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. "

" Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. "

" That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. "

" 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. "

" The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. "

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