"Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost."

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Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.74, Pickle Partners Publishing

Paul Bowles

#Change Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Lost Quotes

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe youâ€™re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone elseâ€™s situation as you are about your own.”
“The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.”
“I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.”
“It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”
“Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.”
“The ship is safest when it is in port, but thatâ€™s not what ships were built for.”
“And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.”
“There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.”

Source : Source: strandmag.com

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