Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen, CBE (; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.

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Education is not so important as people think.

Tags: Mother, Two, She

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Tags: Fact, Until, Begins

Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Tags: Alone, Feeling, Against

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Tags: Impossible, Lovers, Pity

Elizabeth Bowen

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Tags: Sorry, Ever, Means

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Tags: Day, Spring, Winter

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Tags: Brain, Start, Both

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Tags: Nature, Men, Woman

Elizabeth Bowen