# Quote — Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September

> "What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it."But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.

- Author: [Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen.md)
- Book: [The Last September](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-last-september.md)
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