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Famous Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
Source: Collected Impressions
Source: Bowen's Court & Seven Winters
“very young people are true but not resounding instruments.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.”
Source: The House In Paris
Source: Collected Impressions
Source: Collected Impressions
“I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.”
Source: Seven winters
Source: The House In Paris
Source: The House In Paris
“Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.”
Source: Notes on Eire
“Education is not so important as people think.”
Source: Bowen's Court
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.”
Source: The House In Paris
“For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart