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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

You're not competing for him, dumbass. He's already yours. — Sarina Bowen

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

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

She's staring at me like she wants to rip off my clothes. Or just rip something. I'm not quite sure which. — Sarina Bowen

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

I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields. — Jeremy Bowen

Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.
Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings.
p.338 — Kurt Eichenwald

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. — Elizabeth Bowen

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

The one sentence I regret? "Let's watch some porn. — Sarina Bowen

looked up. "Maybe that will jog someone's memory and make them come — Rhys Bowen

Jesus. Good thing he's not a traffic cop, because he's sending enough mixed signals to cause a ten-car pileup. — Sarina Bowen

There's a subtext, you know, 'Honey, I'm home' really means, 'take off your clothes and fuck me."

"I never knew that. — Sarina 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

I won't say anything, but you should tell them. It's not weakness to admit you're not perfect. — Jess 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

Show me, I beg. There's — 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 think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media. — 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

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing. — Jeff 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

Audrey's appearance in my home had the same effect on my libido that springtime had on the deer living on our hilltop. — Sarina Bowen

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

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth. — Julie Bowen

I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats. — Julie Bowen

I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio. — Wade Bowen

cheerfully dragged me into the package store. (That's what you call a liquor store in Connecticut, — Sarina Bowen

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart. — Clare Bowen

A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens. — Elizabeth Bowen

For God's sake, is there no plain man? — Elizabeth Bowen

Raids are slightly constipating. — Elizabeth Bowen

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. — Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. — Elizabeth Bowen

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

It's us. And it's perfect. — 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

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs. — Stuart Bowen

It's hard to admit you're just in someone's periphery when you imagined you were closer to the center of their world. — Sarina Bowen

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style. — Elizabeth Bowen

I'm not sure what's left of privacy right now, but whatever is left, I want to keep it for a while. — Bowen Greenwood

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things. — Julie Bowen

The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936] — Elizabeth Bowen

A living dog's better than a dead lion. — Elizabeth Bowen

God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good. — William R. Bowen

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own. — Clare Bowen

Summer's a total cocktease." He shrugs, repeating himself. "It always ends." He's right about that. Summer always ends. — Sarina Bowen

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen

It's no accident that I'd named my guitar after a boy. He was as close to a boyfriend as I was likely to get. — Sarina Bowen

I'm bisexual, and it's not just a physical connection I feel with Wes. — Sarina Bowen

Everyone has a time when they need a lot more than they can give. It doesn't matter how much you hate it. It's just true. — 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

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

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

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

Those who hurt are hurting. — Will Bowen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Autumn arrives in the early morning. — 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