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# Elizabeth Bowen

(1899–1973)   Short Story Writer   Ireland

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Elizabeth Bowen was a short story writer from Ireland, best known for *Friends and relations*.

## Quick Facts About Elizabeth Bowen

Born June 7, 1899

Died February 22, 1973

Nationality Ireland

Profession Short Story Writer

Notable works Friends and relations

Known for The House in Paris, The Last September, Eva Trout, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day

Spouse Alan Charles Cameron

## About Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo‑Irish novelist and short‑story writer known for books about Irish country houses and for stories set in wartime London.

## Awards & Honors

James Tait Black Memorial Prize Rome Prize Commander of the Order of the British Empire

##  Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen · Page 4

> [There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/there-is-no-end-to-the-violations-committed-by-children-on-children/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [“the senses bound our feeling world: there is an abrupt break where their power stops”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-senses-bound-our-feeling-world-there-is-an-abrupt-break-where/)

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[Feeling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feeling/)

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> [The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-novel-does-not-simply-recount-experience-it-adds-to-experience/)

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[Add](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/add/)

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> [I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-think-the-main-thing-don-t-you-is-to-keep-the-show-on-the-road/)

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[Main thing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/main-thing/)

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> [Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/good-general-purpose-manners-nowadays-may-be-said-to-consist-in/)

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[General](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/general/)

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> [Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/wariness-had-driven-away-poetry-from-hesitating-to-feel-came-the/)

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[Driven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/driven/)

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> [Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/jealousy-is-no-more-than-feeling-alone-against-smiling-enemies/)

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[Enemies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemies/)

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> [It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/it-is-not-our-exalted-feelings-it-is-our-sentiments-that-build-the/)

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[Emotion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emotion/)

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> [Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/every-love-has-a-poetic-relevance-of-its-own-each-love-brings-to/)

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[Doe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doe/)

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> [A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/a-bowen-in-the-first-place-made-bowen-s-court-since-then-with-a/)

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[Court](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/court/)

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> [Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/nothing-arrives-on-paper-as-it-started-and-so-much-arrives-that-never/)

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[Ifs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/)

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> [“She was in that flagging mood when to go on living seems only to load more unmeaning moments on to your memory.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/she-was-in-that-flagging-mood-when-to-go-on-living-seems-only-to-load/)

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[Heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heart/)

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> [Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/though-not-all-reading-children-grow-up-to-be-writers-i-take-it-that/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/but-in-general-for-the-purposes-of-most-novelists-the-number-of/)

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[Describing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/describing/)

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> [“Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money — the Queen, they say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/rich-women-live-at-such-a-distance-from-life-that-very-often-they/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-story-must-spring-from-an-impression-or-perception-pressing/)

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[Enough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enough/)

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> [“I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-swear-that-each-of-us-keeps-battened-down-inside-himself-a-sort-of/)

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[Lunacy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lunacy/)

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> [“Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork: even when someone is not ill, when there has been no telegram, they run…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/grown-up-people-seem-to-be-busy-by-clockwork-even-when-someone-is-not/)

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[Adults](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults/)

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> [Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/almost-everybody-wore-a-curious-limpidity-of-expression-like-newborn/)

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[After death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/after-death/)

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> [Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/darling-i-don-t-want-you-i-ve-got-no-place-for-you-i-only-want-what/)

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[Darling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darling/)

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> [“Spezia offered Leopold almost nothing: his precocity devoured itself there, rejecting the steep sunny coast and nibbling blue edge of the sea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/spezia-offered-leopold-almost-nothing-his-precocity-devoured-itself/)

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[Douches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/douches/)

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> [“For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realisation is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/for-people-who-live-on-expectations-to-face-up-to-their-realisation/)

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[Dream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dream/)

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> [When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/when-i-read-a-story-i-relive-the-moment-from-which-it-sprang-a-scene/)

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[Building](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/building/)

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> [“If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/if-they-should-only-be-ill-she-said-there-would-be-so-many-little/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-pity-people-who-do-not-care-for-society-they-are-poorer-for-the/)

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[Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/)

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> [Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/reason-can-never-reconcile-one-to-life-nothing-allays-the-wants-one/)

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[Explain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/explain/)

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> [“I can't help thinking -- Suppose the world was made for happiness after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-can-t-help-thinking-suppose-the-world-was-made-for-happiness-after/)

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[Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/)

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> [Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/silence-sat-in-the-taxi-as-though-a-stranger-had-got-in/)

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[Sat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sat/)

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> [Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/autumn-arrives-in-early-morning-but-spring-at-the-close-of-a-winter/)

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[Autumn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autumn/)

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> [Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/illusions-are-art-for-the-feeling-person-and-it-is-by-art-that-we/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/forgiveness-should-be-an-act-but-this-is-a-state-with-him/)

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[Forgiveness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/forgiveness/)

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> [Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/nobody-speaks-the-truth-when-there-s-something-they-must-have/)

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[Speaks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/speaks/)

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> [ \[My early stories\] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/my-early-stories-are-the-work-of-a-living-writer-whom-i-know-in-a/)

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[Fiction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fiction/)

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> [the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-slight-sense-of-degeneracy-induced-by-reading-novels-before/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/intimacies-between-women-often-go-backwards-beginning-in-revelations-2/)

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[Backwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/backwards/)

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> [That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/that-is-partly-why-women-marry-to-keep-up-the-fiction-of-being-in-the/)

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[Fiction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fiction/)

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> [very young people are true but not resounding instruments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/very-young-people-are-true-but-not-resounding-instruments/)

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[Instruments](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/instruments/)

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> [“Their hands, swinging, touched lightly now and then; their nearness was as natural as the June day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/their-hands-swinging-touched-lightly-now-and-then-their-nearness-was/)

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[Touched Lightly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touched-lightly-543620/)

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> [Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/mechanical-difficulties-with-language-are-the-outcome-of-internal/)

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[Adversity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adversity/)

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> [Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/chance-is-better-than-choice-it-is-more-lordly-chance-is-god-choice/)

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[Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/)

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## Elizabeth Bowen by topic

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