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Elizabeth Bowen
Canadian actress
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Elizabeth Bowen: Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist (1899–1973)
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“Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.”
“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
“The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.”
“[U]ntruths are thieves, robbing us of a birthright.”
“Cicero, in invoking the law of heaven, invoked what was by nature of heaven: law — inviolable principle, better than the vacillating gods.”
“I am sick of the governessy attitude of our age, which is coming to be more genuinely presumptuous, nosier and more busybody than the Victorian.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
