Irish - Novelist | June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
TruthNobodySomethingMustSpeaks
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
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