Elizabeth Bowen

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#became #cannot #characters #close #creator

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#i think #keep #main #main thing #road

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#backwards #beginning #between #ending #go

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#friend #got #help #helpful #his

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#mixture #statement

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#door #lie #lock #never #wholly

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#nobody #something #speaks #truth

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#colours #degree #happen #happening #nothing

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #live #shadow #without

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#forlorn #hope #impossible #lovers #pity