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Famous Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
“The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.”
“children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.”
“very young people are true but not resounding instruments.”
“Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.”
“nothing is more restful than conformity.”
“to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.”
“Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?”
“nobody ever dies of an indignity.”
“fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.”
“Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.”
“Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.”
“I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.”
“Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.”
“memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.”
“Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.”
“The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.”
“People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.”