Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
fate destiny eagles
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
friendship inspiration coins
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
unique ideas people
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
history people walks
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
goodbye hurt farewell
Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
eye looks faces
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.
past haunting sake
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.
break-up heart adequate
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.
writing paper littles
Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
morning time spring
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
book writing thinking
My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
jealousy loneliness envy
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
writing literature firsts
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
girl expression photograph
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.