Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realizati

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Women
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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War
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Memory
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Miscellaneous

Eloquence is vehement simplicity. – Richard Cecil

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Miscellaneous

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. – Jean Anouilh

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Miscellaneous

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. – Bertrand Russell

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Miscellaneous

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Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you dont need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech. – Susan Wojcicki

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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. – Virginia Woolf

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Love

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? – Henry Finck

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