"Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic."

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Source : Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

Paul Bowles

#Fiction Quotes #Isolation Quotes #Protect Quotes

“I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.”
“Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.”
“We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.”
“It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.”
“All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.”
“The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.”
“If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.”
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”

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