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Seem Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
- Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder…
- 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…
- She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were…
- The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he did not intend to see; he…
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- I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. — Andrea Arnold
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- Be content to seem what you really are. — Marcus Aurelius
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- People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster
- I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker