Paul Bowles Quotes - Page 2

• How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Moon, Twenties, Watches

  Paul Bowles (1979). “Collected stories, 1939-1976”

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• There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

  Paul Bowles

  Dark, Curves, Silence

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• Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

  Paul Bowles

  Age, Tangible, Spirit

  Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”

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• Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

  Paul Bowles

  Errors, Years, Another Year

  Paul Bowles (1979). “Collected stories, 1939-1976”

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• One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

  Paul Bowles

  Unique, Details, Would Be

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• We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

  Paul Bowles

  Fall, Bumps, Hanging On

  Paul Bowles (1994). “The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles”, Penguin Group USA

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• The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

  Paul Bowles

  Experience, Different, Attention

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• Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

  Paul Bowles

  Political, Fiction, Consideration

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• The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.

  Paul Bowles

  Buddhist, Prayer, Thinking

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

  Paul Bowles

  Writing, Thieves, Sides

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• Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

  Paul Bowles

  Stars, Water, Black

  "Points in Time". Book by Paul Bowles, p. 28, 1982.

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• That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

  Paul Bowles

  Worry, Doubt, Dry

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.

  Paul Bowles

  Matter, Charm, Wanted

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

  Paul Bowles

  Artist, Clay, Gertrude

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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