Paul Bowles Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang.

Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing.

Before there can be change there must be discontent.

Tangier is a one-horse town that happens to have its own government.

If she could only give up, relax, and live in the perfect knowledge that there was no hope.

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

He could not feel at ease with gourmets and hedonists; they were a hostile species.

The rest of the world was there for her to take at any moment she wished it, but she always rejected it in favour of her own familiar little cosmos.

I think that's the point of view of an outsider, a tourist who puts picturesqueness above everything else.

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

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.

You can't discipline the whole country."
"Still," Moss said dreamily, "that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything.

One of these days the future will be here, and you won't be ready for it.

After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.

Nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.

These empty days. How do you spend them?

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

How could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.

But don't we all like to be overpowered, one time or another.