Elizabeth Bowen Passion Quotations
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- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Oscar Wilde
- David Hume
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- William Shakespeare
- Honore De Balzac
- Samuel Johnson
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Rumi
- Albert Camus
- Alexander Hamilton
- John Piper
- D H Lawrence
- Joseph Addison
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Hazlitt
- Alexander Pope
- Aristotle
- Thomas Jefferson
- Bertrand Russell
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Roots Quotes
Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.
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Character Quotes
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.