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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

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

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

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

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

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

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

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

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

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

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

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

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

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

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it r...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have n...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk witho...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation
ELIZABETH BOWEN

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is mos...
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 o...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm
ELIZABETH BOWEN

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but f...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardl...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting
ELIZABETH BOWEN

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms
ELIZABETH BOWEN

We are minor in everything but our passions
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is fu...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude t...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it r...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible so...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

She was in that flagging mood when to go on living seems only to load more unmeaning moments on to y...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the wh...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH E. BOWEN The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really ...
ELIZABETH E. BOWEN No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is fu...
ELIZABETH E. BOWEN Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
ELIZABETH E. BOWEN When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
EZRA BOWEN

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.
BOWEN BAXTER

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
FRANCIS BOWEN

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paral...
JULIE BOWEN We are going through our council to draw up a plan. As of right now, the position of our university ...
BILL BOWEN No more building permits until they get the permanent land use plan is in effect.
BILL BOWEN I think we'll have a full house. This is good news. I feel great about it.
BILL BOWEN We are looking for employers with a large employee base and job diversity, not only in entry level b...
BILL BOWEN We even shared experts,
BILL BOWEN We all need to be courteous towards each other as far as the hunters being courteous towards other h...
BILL BOWEN That would have probably tripled the cost.
BILL BOWEN A center of social life for more than 20 years, the club felt little impact from prohibition - excep...
BILL BOWEN This is the kind of getaway we would want, where you are pampered and taken care of but nobody is in...
BILL BOWEN The job fair will assist returning Arizona National Guard soldiers, marines and airmen from Iraq and...
BILL BOWEN

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances ar...
JULIE BOWEN

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should b...
JULIE BOWEN

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.
JULIE BOWEN

I have a big mouth.
JULIE BOWEN Kobe is the ultimate competitor, so any time we can hold him in check, we're happy.
BRUCE BOWEN Night in and night out I look forward to playing the other team's top player. You have to pay attent...
BRUCE BOWEN We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bother...
BRUCE BOWEN It's not a matter of we were playing a game, and then we had to stop the game, ... It was just comin...
BRUCE BOWEN When (Owens returns), that's five pretty strong players. They've got to play their best but when the...
BRUCE BOWEN Severna Park is the favorite this year and next year. They're four top players are all juniors.
BRUCE BOWEN We players understand we have the best lives in the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fan...
BRUCE BOWEN I think it's a great idea and opportunity, not just for the NBA and the players, but for the two org...
BRUCE BOWEN [Even when he failed to make the play successfully, Duncan was actively involved. He determined wher...
BRUCE BOWEN Flying under the radar is great. I could care less if anybody talks about us. We're still doing what...
BRUCE BOWEN What we've learned is the Florida manatee is genetically unique, and that it's isolated from manatee...
BRIAN BOWEN It's very much against their well-being to travel across open water. Out there, they are big, slow a...
BRIAN BOWEN George has had lot of success up there and he was tough all race long, but I was confident I could s...
BRIAN BOWEN I've dreamed about winning the Race of Champions at Oswego since I was a little kid. It's just super...
BRIAN BOWEN When we get 2,000 pounds (of food), we spend $320. When you think about a box of cereal that could s...
BOB BOWEN We're always happy to receive gifts of money, which is the most flexible kind of gift. We can buy fo...
BOB BOWEN I haven't seen excitement in this ballpark like last (Saturday) since Stanton Cameron hit that three...
BOB BOWEN When you consider the nine players in the batting order, this team is a little better than the 1993 ...
BOB BOWEN We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
BOB BOWEN We were about one-third into the year and we had maybe 65 to 70 percent of our budget receipts ... f...
BOB BOWEN This year it's gone down to less than $3,500 (per month).
BOB BOWEN If we continue down this path, consumers will lose all confidence in the airlines' capability to per...
BRENT BOWEN The workforce is probably as demoralized as any of us would be if our jobs were flailing, our pay wa...
BRENT BOWEN The demoralized work force is probably contributing to the fact that the consumer doesn't feel as we...
BRENT BOWEN Unfortunately, as we've gotten back up to the pre- 9/11 capacity levels, we've only had problems tha...
BRENT BOWEN The most important reason for working out is for mental reasons. When you get tired physically, you ...
BOWEN SARGENT Even though we can't require it, most guys compete and play in tournaments over Christmas on their o...
BOWEN SARGENT You have to position the ball underneath the holes, because the greens are really quick and really g...
BOWEN SARGENT We are going to have to play well this week. We are probably on the outside looking in and we need a...
BOWEN SARGENT It is really a thin line, and it's that way every tournament, the difference between finishing third...
BOWEN SARGENT

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.
JULIE BOWEN My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything fr...
CLARE BOWEN I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown o...
CATHERINE BOWEN Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
CATHERINE BOWEN Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.
CATHERINE BOWEN Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
CATHERINE BOWEN In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should...
CATHERINE BOWEN For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
CATHERINE BOWEN The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Succ...
CATHERINE BOWEN Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unh...
CATHERINE BOWEN Will the reader turn the page?
CATHERINE BOWEN Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experience...
CATHERINE BOWEN One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
STUART BOWEN We currently have rough concepts, will go to design and then get tenant specific.
CEO BOWEN We are ultimately trying to build something with long-term viability. We are long-term holders of as...
CEO BOWEN There is currently substantial interest for multiple tenants, but the announcement is premature. The...
CEO BOWEN Our vision for this site is to do a high-quality, pedestrian-friendly, main street traditional and l...
CEO BOWEN

If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.
EZRA BOWEN

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton...
JULIE BOWEN It's ironic because the ruling reflects that the educational services provided by the district resul...
JOHN BOWEN

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matt...
JULIE BOWEN We talked before the game and said we wanted to get the ball to Liz. No one can guard her. And we kn...
LINDSAY BOWEN

I never had furniture. I had four knives, forks and cups. I had one of those bachelor sets you get a...
JULIE BOWEN Our plan is maintain our current resources and align them with commuter rail. We want both our bus a...
ART BOWEN

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!
JULIE BOWEN We will have an even bigger impact in Davis and Weber counties in the future.
ART BOWEN We lead the nation in (low) accident rates. UTA has 0.7 accidents per 100,000 miles, which is extrem...
ART BOWEN I don't think anybody believes that [with] an infected horse or an infected dog, a mosquito that fee...
RICHARD BOWEN Nan will bring a no-nonsense, take no prisoners approach to the Senate. She can be a strong coalitio...
CHUCK BOWEN This technology is desperately needed in today's classrooms so that children here in America will ac...
WILLIAM BOWEN Maybe it wasn’t rational, but she didn’t like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterd...
SARINA BOWEN It looks as though a slow earthquake began to split it years ago. I have to grip the steering wheel ...
PAUL BOWEN Jesus. Good thing he’s not a traffic cop, because he’s sending enough mixed signals to cause a t...
SARINA BOWEN When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but of...
CLARE BOWEN

He met me when I was doing 'Ed,' so he adjusted to that schedule.
JULIE BOWEN Living on the streets of London strips away your dignity, your identity − your everything, really....
JAMES BOWEN We are alarmed that in 2006 some soldiers of the U.S. Army would embrace the language of hatred towa...
CHUCK BOWEN He is a brilliant political strategist and very knowledgeable of the issues important to all Georgia...
CHUCK BOWEN When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - lookin...
CHARLES BOWEN The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The u...
CHARLES BOWEN It really concerns me that we are losing a great statesman because the current leadership is so unwi...
CHUCK BOWEN Personally, I think the odds are more like 1 in 33,000 for the average golfer.
JAMES BOWEN El amor es una amistad prendida fuego. Ahora lo entiendo.
SARINA BOWEN There's a famous quote I read somewhere. It says we are all given second chances every day of our li...
JAMES BOWEN I enjoy playing against Ray. You're playing against one of the top guys in the league as far as peri...
BRUCE BOWEN I, on the other hand, do. I have the same damn weakness I’ve always had. It’s still there as I s...
SARINA BOWEN It's not her fault she can't cook."
"You are too nice natured, darling. You won't get anywhere ...
RHYS BOWEN If they don't pay out a special dividend, it could well indicate that they could be planning for som...
BOWEN PHUA Basically the story hasn't changed much - Singapore is no longer a growth market and neither is Aust...
BOWEN PHUA My guess is that we'll only have a better, clearer indication of the magnitude of cost savings in 20...
BOWEN PHUA It's not about taking away rights from gays and lesbians as much as it is denying the best opportuni...
CHUCK BOWEN Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk abou...
RHYS BOWEN

In my first courtroom scene, William [Shatner] had one of those giant monologues [creator] David Kel...
JULIE BOWEN Taste the rainbow.
JOHN BOWEN While we continue to oppose even the amended version, we knew that if we appeared before the committ...
CHUCK BOWEN It comes down to cost, condition and space as to why the pool is closing. It's time to take action.
CHARLES BOWEN I think as an educational institution, at some point during a student's journey, it becomes importan...
CHARLES BOWEN More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution,
CHARLES BOWEN When Karen ran for office in 2003 and stressed her support for equality for us, none of us knew that...
CHUCK BOWEN I've been consumed for a year with the fear we would run out of money to finish projects.
STUART BOWEN One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
STUART BOWEN A key lesson of the [inspector general's] experience is that oversight works best when it is up-fron...
STUART BOWEN That number in fact will be much higher.
STUART BOWEN The need for more funding has reached a critical point.
STUART BOWEN The CPA did not implement adequate financial controls.
STUART BOWEN

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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