Paul Bowles Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Paul Bowles quotes: It is a dangerous discovery, because they are going to disregard many vital things in their haste to catch up. Paul Bowles quotes: It is a dangerous discovery, because they are going to disregard many vital things in their haste to catch up.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-2070355.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam. Paul Bowles quotes: There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-547737.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. Paul Bowles quotes: How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-307325.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: There is a way to master silenceControl its curves, inhabit its dark cornersAnd listen to the hiss of time outside Paul Bowles quotes: There is a way to master silenceControl its curves, inhabit its dark cornersAnd listen to the hiss of time outside](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-878658.jpg)
Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners
And listen to the hiss of time outside
![Paul Bowles quotes: Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. Paul Bowles quotes: Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-555450.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: The odious little dogs that French people seemed to like so much rushed out at him as he rode by, barking furiously. Paul Bowles quotes: The odious little dogs that French people seemed to like so much rushed out at him as he rode by, barking furiously.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1698253.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: His behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight. Paul Bowles quotes: His behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1065907.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another. Paul Bowles quotes: If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1554261.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential. Paul Bowles quotes: Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1631181.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: A man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing. Paul Bowles quotes: A man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1895030.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: At least you can say you were in on the last days of Morocco," he told her. "How's your tea? Finished? I think we ought to be going. Paul Bowles quotes: At least you can say you were in on the last days of Morocco," he told her. "How's your tea? Finished? I think we ought to be going.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-2131770.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing. Paul Bowles quotes: Here we say that life is a cliff, and you must never turn around and look back when you're climbing.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-2154198.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: 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. Paul Bowles quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1985487.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: 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. Paul Bowles quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1843264.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: I think that's the point of view of an outsider, a tourist who puts picturesqueness above everything else. Paul Bowles quotes: I think that's the point of view of an outsider, a tourist who puts picturesqueness above everything else.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-644029.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: 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. Paul Bowles quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1544740.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: You can't discipline the whole country." "Still," Moss said dreamily, "that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything. Paul Bowles quotes: You can't discipline the whole country." "Still," Moss said dreamily, "that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1490346.jpg)
"Still," Moss said dreamily, "that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything.
![Paul Bowles quotes: Nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know. Paul Bowles quotes: Nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-1254469.jpg)
![Paul Bowles quotes: The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. Paul Bowles quotes: The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/paul-bowles-quotes-783332.jpg)