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People Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
- Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.
- Education is not so important as people think.
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a…
- Dialogue should show the relationships among people.
- Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
- To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
- For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
- Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points…
- With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of…
- Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
- It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle