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In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. — Elizabeth Bowen

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. — Elizabeth Bowen

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy. — Elizabeth Bowen

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress. — Stuart Bowen

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. — Elizabeth Bowen

Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at. — Julie Bowen

What are you waiting for, Ryan? Suck it already. — Sarina Bowen

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... — Elizabeth Bowen

Why would you complicate our friendship?" I whispered. "Like it's so simple now?" He countered. — Sarina Bowen

The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just's umbrella. — Charles Bowen

Thank you for that selfless act of research on my behalf. — Sarina Bowen

You have only to feel the sacred music of your soul, to dance. — Connie Bowen

some lipstick on his dipstick?" I — Sarina Bowen

Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way? — Jose Antonio Bowen

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them. — Julie Bowen

You can bite the pillow when I make you scream. — Sarina Bowen

It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living? — Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. — Julie Bowen

I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment. — Julie Bowen

My dick and I reached an understanding." "Yeah? And what's that?" I ask curiously. He shrugs. "We both like you. — Sarina Bowen

Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood. — Jess Bowen

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things. — Julie 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

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish. — Elizabeth Bowen

At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything. — Elizabeth Bowen

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing. — Elizabeth Bowen

That's when he finally turns his head to look at me. As he rubs himself, he swallows, and I see his Adam's apple bob roughly. "I need to know. — Sarina Bowen

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it. — Elizabeth Bowen

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. — Elizabeth Bowen

I was as good as resisting Griff Shipley as Homer Simpson was at resisting a donut. — Sarina Bowen

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final. — Elizabeth Bowen

Once upon a time we were briefly friends with benefits. Now we're just friends at a benefit. — Sarina Bowen

The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind. — Elizabeth Bowen

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. — Elizabeth Bowen

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie! — Julie Bowen

You're not okay. And I'm the one who noticed. — Sarina Bowen

Will the reader turn the page? — Catherine Drinker Bowen

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience. — Elizabeth Bowen

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain — James Bowen

Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living. — Marjorie Bowen

Henrietta knew of the heart as an organ; she privately saw it covered in red plush and believed that it could not break, though it might tear. — Elizabeth Bowen

Raids are slightly constipating. — Elizabeth Bowen

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. — Francis Bowen

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself. — Marjorie Bowen

The paradox of romantic love
that what one possesses, one can no longer desire
was at work. — Elizabeth Bowen

The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary. — Rhys Bowen

So like a man, to think there's safety among yet more men. — Lila Bowen

Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen

My boyfriend? I thought I'd resigned myself to the fact that we weren't going to be together. And now I'm thinking of him as my boyfriend? — Sarina Bowen

Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me. — Elizabeth Bowen

To leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere. — Elizabeth Bowen

If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk. — Rhys Bowen

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. — Elizabeth Bowen

Maybe I can convince you to kiss me again. I'm right here, honey. Come get me. — Sarina Bowen

screen. Again, he — Sarina Bowen

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage ... — Elizabeth Bowen

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. — Julie Bowen

Autumn arrives in the early morning. — Elizabeth Bowen

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make. — Elizabeth Bowen

I'm most certainly not the Beatles. — Julie Bowen

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. — Elizabeth Bowen

Children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret. — Elizabeth Bowen

The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy. — Elizabeth Bowen

I suspect victims; they win in the long run. — Elizabeth Bowen

Everything ungirt, artless, ardent, urgent about Louie was to the fore: all over herself she gave the impression of twisted stockings. — Elizabeth Bowen

Why hasn't anyone ever told me the prostate was some kind of magical pleasure zone? Are there unicorns and orgasm fairies dancing around in there? — Sarina Bowen

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ... — Elizabeth Bowen

Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved. — Albert E. Bowen

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. — Elizabeth Bowen

We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological. — Elizabeth Bowen

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by? — Catherine Drinker Bowen

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living. — A. J. Bowen

Those who hurt are hurting. — Will Bowen

Are you really an orphan?
Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you?
No, not at present, but I suppose it's a thing one is bound to be. — Elizabeth Bowen

Very young people are true but not resounding instruments. — Elizabeth Bowen

Bad form, Regin! Wrong car."
Immediately after, the house shook again. "Oh, much better!" Nix assured them. "That was Bowen's! — Kresley Cole

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake. — Elizabeth Bowen

There weren't any time-outs, though. Not in life, and not in hockey. — Sarina Bowen

Dialogue should show the relationships among people. — Elizabeth Bowen

Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress. — Lila Bowen

The question now isn't whether I want to fool around with this man. The question is how I'm ever going to give it up. — Sarina Bowen

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Disappointment tears the bearable film of life. — Elizabeth Bowen

One should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over. — Elizabeth Bowen

I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true. — Elizabeth Bowen

I'm like the worst queer dude ever. Somebody pass me the manual! — Sarina Bowen

Look at what you could have won. — Jim Bowen

All he has is a mangled ankle. I have Americans. — Rhys Bowen

He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself. — Elizabeth Bowen

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. — Elizabeth Bowen

It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King. — Marjorie Bowen

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town. — Elizabeth Bowen

Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape. — Lila Bowen