Coleman Dowell Quotes

• Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

  Coleman Dowell

  Suffering, Fiction, Becoming

  Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

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• It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

  Coleman Dowell

  Coffee, House, Bereavement

  Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

  Coleman Dowell

  Death, Block, Loss

  "Mrs. October was Here".

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