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

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About Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen, CBE (; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, notable for her fiction about life in wartime London.

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

—Elizabeth Bowen

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Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork. . . . They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

—Elizabeth Bowen

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

—Elizabeth Bowen

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

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

—Elizabeth Bowen

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"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

—Ken Hakuta

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I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

—Sara Teasdale

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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

—Edwin Land

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

—H. L. Mencken

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.