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Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (7 June 1899 - 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Bowen was born in Dublin and later brought to Bowen-s Court in County Cork where she spent her summers. When her father became mentally ill in 1907, she and her mother moved to England, eventually settling in Hythe. After her mother died in 1912, Bowen was brought up by her aunts

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen »
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. Elizabeth Bowen »
It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights. Elizabeth Bowen »
No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. Elizabeth Bowen »
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen »
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. Elizabeth Bowen »

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