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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Adequate Because Break Create Each Ever Hearts Live Other Our Situations Them Then Up Who

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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Language Mixture Statement

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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Alarm Always Cause Life Look One Way Way You

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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Alone Door Lie Lock Never Wholly You Your

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

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Brief Hope Impossible Lovers Pity Selfishness

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Art Feeling Illusions Live Person

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

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Being Fiction Hub Keep Marry Partly Things Up Why Women

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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Few Innocent Lie Meet Round Seldom Strewn Them Two Victims

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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Does Idea Meeting Oneself Only Outlook People Unique Unlike

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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Keep Main Main Thing Road Show Thing Think You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: June 7th, 1899

Died: February 22nd, 1973

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