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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
— 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
What are you waiting for, Ryan? Suck it already.
— Sarina 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 justAnd 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
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
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
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
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
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
Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
— Elizabeth 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
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
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
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
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
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
