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Elizabeth Bowen
Irish
Novelist
Born:
Jun 7
,
1899
Died:
Feb 22
,
1973
Alone
Feeling
Live
People
Think
You
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy
Alone
Enemies
Feeling
More
Smiling
Than
Against
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
Day
Nature
Morning
Winter
Spring
Autumn
Close
Early
Early Morning
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Elizabeth Bowen
Eye
Object
Mysterious
Mystery
Your
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen
Life
You
Own
Kinder
Nobody
Terms
React
Narcissist
His
Than
While
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen
Writing
Value
First
Out
Must
Proportion
Writer
Written
Importance
Actual
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen
War
World
Cruelty
Both
Toxic
Private
Brain
Heated
Fantasy
Start
World War
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Elizabeth Bowen
Alone
You
Lie
Lock
Never
Door
Your
Wholly
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
Hope
Impossible
Selfishness
Forlorn
Pity
Lovers
Brief
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen
You
Youth
Find
Taken
Taken For Granted
Greatness
Want
Your
Granted
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Elizabeth Bowen
Language
Statement
Mixture
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth Bowen
People
Meeting
Unlike
Oneself
Only
Outlook
Idea
Does
Unique
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