About Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen CBE (; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.