Jane Bowles Quotes

• I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

  Jane Bowles

  Girl, Men, People

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.78, Macmillan

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• I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

  Jane Bowles

  Nice, Done, Feels

  Jane Auer Bowles, Millicent Dillon (1985). “Out in the world: selected letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970”, Black Sparrow Pr

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• Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

  Jane Bowles

  Voting, Democracy, Problem

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• Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

  Jane Bowles

  Hate, Heart, House

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.282, Macmillan

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• A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

  Jane Bowles

  Angel, Giving, Luck

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

  Jane Bowles

  Love Is, Sisterly, This Life

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.416, Macmillan

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• the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

  Jane Bowles

  Victory, Faces, Defeat

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan

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• I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

  Jane Bowles

  Nomad

  Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr

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• I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

  Jane Bowles

  Cutting, Thinking, Anxiety

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.10, Macmillan

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• It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

  Jane Bowles

  Government, May, Worst

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• Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

  Jane Bowles

  Victory, Able, Faces

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan

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• Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

  Jane Bowles

  Life, Men, Inspire

  Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr

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• The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

  Jane Bowles

  Dog, Men, Rainbow

  Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr

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