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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."
"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."
"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
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