Elizabeth Bowen

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ”

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

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. ”

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

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

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

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

We are minor in everything but our passions. ”

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ”

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