First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context

Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it...

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it...

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream...

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream...

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of...

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of...

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the...

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the...

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of...

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of...

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it...

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it...

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always...

The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always...

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Ideas are the building blocks of ideas.

Ideas are the building blocks of ideas.