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

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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. – Elizabeth Bowen

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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. – Howard W. Newton

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The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. – George Eliot, Felix Holt, The Radical

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Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. – Edward Somers

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