Paul Bowles Quotes
Paul Bowles Quotes
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.
2562 The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.
3416 How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
4337 ...before there can be change there must be discontent.
2771 That was one of the troubles with the Istiqlal, with all politics: you talked about people as though they were not really people, as though they were only things, numbers, animals, perhaps, but not really people.
2936 If you could not have freedom you could still have vengeance.
4854 The soul is the weariest part of the body.
3410 Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.
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