Elizabeth Bowen Quote

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Elizabeth Bowen

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

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About Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen ( BOH-ən; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) 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.
In 1958, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson.