That is partly why women marry – to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
