46 ordspråk av Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen föddes den 7 juni 1899 och dog den 22 februar 1973 - brittisk författare.
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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

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

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

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect

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

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

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

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

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.

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

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

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