Bowen

Famous quotes containing the word bowen:

    ... it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    Education is not so important as people think.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he did not intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)