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

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Degrees, Literature, Shapes
Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Elizabeth Bowen
Passion, Literature, Minors
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Art, Feelings, Literature
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Literature, Outcomes, Language
Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Thinking, Literature, Shows

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Lying, Two, Literature
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Women, Literature, Intimacy
"The Death of the Heart". Book by Elizabeth Bowen, 1938.

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
Character, Directors, Literature
Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

Elizabeth Bowen
Country, Literature, Married
Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Elizabeth Bowen
Writing, Literature, Firsts

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Elizabeth Bowen
Children, Talking, Literature
The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

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