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16 Quotes for 'Elizabeth Bowen' in the Database.
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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Topic: Admiration
Source: None
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Topic: Emotion`
Source: None
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Topic: Existence
Source: None
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Topic: Fate
Source: The House in Paris (pt. 2, ch. 2)
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Source: None
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Source: None
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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Topic: Memory
Source: None
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.
Topic: Mystery
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Topic: Negativity
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Topic: Photography
Source: None
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Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Topic: Seasons
Source: None
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