"I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway."

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Source : Jane Auer Bowles, Millicent Dillon (1985). “Out in the world: selected letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970”, Black Sparrow Pr

Jane Bowles

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“Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.”
“'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.”
“There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.”
“Live your life, ï»¿listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember your not alone”
“I was about 20 when my mom got sick with cancer and it was bad. It was very scary and at the time I was doing my first screenplay and I was on deadline and was alone with my father in Massachusetts. I said, "Pop, you know, I don't how I'm going to work. I don't know how I can get this done. You know, I got to hand this script in and I can't think about anything but Mom." He said, "Well, you know, now is the time when you're going to learn what it means to compartmentalize." And those words really had an impact on me.”
“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
“From what we cannot hold, the stars are made.”
“The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.”

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