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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 6

> [One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/one-can-live-in-the-shadow-of-an-idea-without-grasping-it/)

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[Grasping](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grasping/)

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> [Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/where-would-the-irish-be-without-someone-to-be-irish-at/)

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> [Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/not-only-is-there-no-question-of-solitude-but-in-the-long-run-we-may/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-can-t-see-or-feel-the-conflict-between-love-and-religion-to-me-they/)

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> [But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/but-to-be-quite-oneself-one-must-first-waste-a-little-time/)

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[Firsts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/firsts/)

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> [Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/sport-and-death-are-the-two-great-socializing-factors-in-ireland/)

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[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

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> [Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/convention-was-our-safeguard-could-one-have-stronger/)

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[Convention](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/convention/)

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> [Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/spoilt-pleasure-is-a-sad-unseemly-thing-you-can-only-bury-it/)

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[Pleasure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pleasure/)

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> [Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera… Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/almost-everyone-admits-to-hunger-during-the-opera-hunger-is-so/)

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[Hunger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunger/)

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> [Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/good-byes-breed-a-sort-of-distaste-for-whomever-you-say-good-bye-to/)

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[Bye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bye/)

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> [All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/all-your-youth-you-want-to-have-your-greatness-taken-for-granted-when/)

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[Granted](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/granted/)

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> [Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/princess-bibesco-delighted-in-a-semi-ideal-world-a-world-which-though/)

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[Counterparts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/counterparts/)

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> [Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/jane-austen-much-in-advance-of-her-day-was-a-mistress-of-the-use-of/)

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[Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/austen/)

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> [... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/artists-were-intended-to-be-an-ornament-to-society-as-a-society-in/)

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

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> [ Art is for \[the Irish\] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/art-is-for-the-irish-inseparable-from-artifice-of-that-the-theatre-is/)

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> [Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/temperamentally-the-writer-exists-on-happenings-on-contacts-conflicts/)

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

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> [No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/no-one-of-the-characters-in-my-novels-has-originated-so-far-as-i-know/)

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

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> [The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-heart-may-think-it-knows-better-the-senses-know-that-absence-2/)

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[Absence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absence/)

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> [I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-am-fully-intelligent-only-when-i-write-i-have-a-certain-amount-of/)

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[Amount](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amount/)

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> [With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/with-no-banal-reassuring-grown-ups-present-with-grown-up-intervention/)

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[Cease](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cease/)

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> [Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the 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-2/)

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[Deck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deck/)

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> [... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/into-the-novel-goes-such-taste-as-i-have-for-rational-behaviour-and/)

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[Behaviour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behaviour/)

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> [“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/first-love-with-its-frantic-haughty-imagination-swings-its-object/)

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[First love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/)

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> [“I cannot say anything about going away. I cannot say anything even in this diary. Perhaps it is better not to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-cannot-say-anything-about-going-away-i-cannot-say-anything-even-in/)

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[Diary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diary/)

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> [Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/dialogue-in-fiction-is-what-characters-do-to-one-another/)

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

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> [Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/some-people-are-molded-by-their-admirations-others-by-their/)

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[Admiration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/admiration/)

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> [Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/solitary-and-farouche-people-don-t-have-relationships-they-are-quite/)

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[People](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/)

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> [“The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-way-downhill-into-the-bottomless-incredulity-which-is-despair-was/)

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[Trees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trees/)

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> [Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/young-girls-like-the-excess-of-any-quality-without-knowing-they-want/)

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[Chords](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chords/)

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> [The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-best-that-an-individual-can-do-is-to-concentrate-on-what-he-or/)

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[Burning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burning/)

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> [“Experience isn’t interesting till 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-till-it-begins-to-repeat-itself-in-fact/)

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

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> [“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/are-you-really-an-orphan-yes-i-am-said-portia-a-shade-shortly-are-you/)

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[Orphan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/orphan/)

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> [But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/but-complex-people-are-never-certain-that-they-are-not-crooks-never/)

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[Certain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/certain/)

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> [“She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/she-thought-she-need-not-worry-about-her-youth-it-wasted-itself/)

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

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> [“Looking back at a repetition of empty days, one sees that monuments have sprung up. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/looking-back-at-a-repetition-of-empty-days-one-sees-that-monuments/)

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[Habit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habit/)

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> [Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/intimacies-between-women-often-go-backwards-beginning-in-revelations/)

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[Familiarity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/familiarity/)

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> [The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-innocent-are-so-few-that-two-of-them-seldom-meet-when-they-do/)

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[Innocent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/innocent/)

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> [One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/one-s-sentiments-call-them-that-one-s-fidelities-are-so-instinctive/)

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[Betray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/betray/)

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> [“Sacrificers,” said Matchett, “are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/sacrificers-said-matchett-are-not-the-ones-to-pity-the-ones-to-pity/)

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[Sacrifice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sacrifice/)

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> [“A smell of sandalwood boxes, a kind of glaze on the air from all the chintzes numbed his earthy vitality, he became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/a-smell-of-sandalwood-boxes-a-kind-of-glaze-on-the-air-from-all-the/)

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[Sandalwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sandalwood/)

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## Elizabeth Bowen by topic

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