"If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another."

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Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.5, Pickle Partners Publishing

Paul Bowles

#Moving Quotes #People Quotes

“How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.”
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”
“I love winning. I don't like losing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.”
“Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.”
“It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.”
“Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.”
“Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.”

Source : Michael Dibdin (2008). “Ratking”, p.166, Faber & Faber

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