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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Friend Got He Help Helpful His Holes Pockets Putting

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

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Difficulties Internal Language Mechanical Outcome Thought

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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Actual First Importance Must Out Proportion Value Writer Writing Written

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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Grasping Idea Live Shadow Without

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

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Alone Children Committed End Quietly Talking Violations

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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.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Absence Absent Better Friends Heart Know Knows May Out People Really Senses Think

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

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Art Go Hurting Once One Thing Stopped Thing

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

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Backwards Beginning Between Ending Go Often Revelations Small Small Talk Talk Women

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

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Begins Does Experience Fact Hardly In Fact Interesting Itself Repeat Till Until

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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Find Granted Greatness Taken Taken For Granted Want You Your Youth

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: June 7th, 1899

Died: February 22nd, 1973

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