Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth BowenThe innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Elizabeth BowenMy writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
Elizabeth Bowen