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“ I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility. ”

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A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects, subjects find them.

~ Elizabeth Bowen