Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen 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.
Quotes
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.