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“These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter and sometimes a little mad, for it is the laugh under the mask of tragedy, and also the laughter that masks tears. They are the same. It is the laughter of people who value love and friendship and plenty, who have lived with terror and death and hate." - , Return to Laughter (1954)”
Elenore Smith Bowen
“These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter and sometimes a little mad, for it is the laugh under the mask of tragedy, and also the laughter that masks tears. They are the same. It is the laughter of people who value love and friendship and plenty, who have lived with terror and death and hate." - , Return to Laughter (1954)”
Elenore Smith Bowen, Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.”
Elizabeth Bowen“I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.”
Julie Bowen“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”
Elizabeth Bowen“Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.”
Elizabeth Bowen“I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.”
Julie Bowen“More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.”
Charles Bowen“Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.”
Elizabeth Bowen“When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.”
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