Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was an Irish writer (nee Dorothea Cole). She was a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She is known for exploring moral dilemmas in her works. She wrote over seventy short stories, ten novels, and numerous non-fiction works.Wisdom and Quotes
- Art is the only thing that can go mattering once as it has stopped hurting.
- There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking along.
- Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
- There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
- Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
- Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.
- Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without the loss of esteem.
- Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Jorge Luis Borges
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