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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 5

> [Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/sacrificers-are-not-the-ones-to-pity-the-ones-to-pity-are-those-they/)

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[Inspirational](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/)

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> [“At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/at-spezia-when-i-am-angry-i-go-full-of-smoke-inside-but-when-you-make/)

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[Angry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/angry/)

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> [I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-do-like-italian-graves-they-look-so-much-more-lived-in/)

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[Graves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/graves/)

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> [Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/dialogue-should-convey-a-sense-of-spontaneity-but-eliminate-the/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [“He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/he-feels-spikes-everywhere-and-rushes-to-impale-himself/)

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[Foolishness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foolishness/)

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> [... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/any-fictionis-bound-to-be-transposed-autobiography/)

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[Autobiography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autobiography/)

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> [All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/all-my-life-i-have-said-whatever-happens-there-will-always-be-tables/)

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[Chairs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chairs/)

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> [“People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/people-in-love-in-whom-every-sense-is-open-cannot-beat-off-the/)

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[Beats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beats/)

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> [Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/nothing-can-happen-nowhere-the-locale-of-the-happening-always-colours/)

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[Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/)

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> [In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/in-big-houses-in-which-things-are-done-properly-there-is-always-the/)

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[Big houses](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-houses/)

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> [Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/experience-isn-t-interesting-until-it-begins-to-repeat-itself-in-fact/)

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[Experience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience/)

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> [She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/she-walked-about-with-the-rather-fated-expression-you-see-in/)

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[Expression](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/expression/)

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> [“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/karen-her-elbows-folded-on-the-deck-rail-wanted-to-share-with-someone/)

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[Karen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/karen/)

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> [What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/what-is-being-said-is-the-effect-of-something-that-has-happened-at/)

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[Effects](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/)

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> [“Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/livvy-noted-there-seemed-some-communal-feeling-between-the-married/)

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[Marriage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/marriage/)

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> [Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/story-involves-action-action-towards-an-end-not-to-be-foreseen-by-the/)

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> [As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/as-a-novelist-i-cannot-occupy-myself-with-characters-or-at-any-rate/)

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[Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/)

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> [There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/there-is-no-doubt-that-sorrow-brings-one-down-in-the-world-the/)

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[Aristocratic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aristocratic/)

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> [ This, my first \[bicycle\] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/this-my-first-bicycle-had-an-intrinsic-beauty-and-it-opened-for-me-an/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-writer-unlike-his-non-writing-adult-friend-has-no-predisposed/)

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

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> [... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/in-general-the-anglo-irish-do-not-make-good-dancers-they-are-too/)

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[Conscious](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conscious/)

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> [Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/roughly-the-action-of-a-character-should-be-unpredictable-before-it/)

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[Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/)

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> [Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/characters-should-on-the-whole-be-under-rather-than-over-articulate/)

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[Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/)

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> [“She never foresaw their marriage, its days and nights, other than as embowered by dazzling acres, blossoms a snowy blaze and with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/she-never-foresaw-their-marriage-its-days-and-nights-other-than-as/)

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[Flowers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flowers/)

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> [rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/rudeness-to-mrs-dosely-was-like-dropping-a-pat-of-butter-on-to-a-hot/)

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[Dropping](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dropping/)

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> [ \[A writer\] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/a-writer-should-try-not-to-be-too-far-personally-below-the-level-of/)

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[Levels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/levels/)

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> [Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/bring-all-your-intelligence-to-bear-on-your-beginning/)

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[Bears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bears/)

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> [There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/there-s-something-so-showy-about-desperation-it-takes-hard-wits-to/)

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[Desperation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desperation/)

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> [To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/to-walk-into-history-is-to-be-free-at-once-to-be-at-large-among-people/)

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[Free](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/free/)

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> [fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/fashion-seems-to-exist-for-an-abstract-person-who-is-not-you-or-me/)

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[Abstract](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abstract/)

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> [...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/there-must-be-something-she-wanted-and-that-therefore-she-was-no-lady/)

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[Lady](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lady/)

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> [“Some of my ideas get enlarged almost before I have them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/some-of-my-ideas-get-enlarged-almost-before-i-have-them/)

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[Ideas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/)

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> [to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/to-leap-is-not-only-to-leap-it-is-to-hit-the-ground-somewhere/)

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[Ground](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ground/)

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> [The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-craft-of-the-novelist-does-lie-first-of-all-in-story-telling/)

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[Crafts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crafts/)

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> [When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/when-you-love-someone-all-your-saved-up-wishes-start-coming-out/)

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[Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/)

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> [What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/what-i-have-found-is-anything-one-keeps-hidden-should-now-and-then-be/)

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[Found](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/found/)

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> [For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/for-people-who-live-on-expectations-to-face-up-to-their-realization/)

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[Expectations](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/expectations/)

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> [If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/if-a-theme-or-idea-is-too-near-the-surface-the-novel-becomes-simply-a/)

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

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> [“Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/someone-soon-to-start-on-a-journey-is-always-a-little-holy/)

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[Holy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/holy/)

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> [without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/without-fiction-either-life-would-be-insufficient-or-the-winds-from/)

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[Blow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blow/)

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## Elizabeth Bowen by topic

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