“Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.”
“Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.”
Elizabeth Bowen“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”
Elizabeth Bowen“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.”
Elizabeth Bowen“Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.”
Elizabeth 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.”
Elizabeth Bowen“In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.”
Elizabeth Bowen“Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.”
Elizabeth Bowen“Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.”
Elizabeth Bowen“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 each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.”
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