Quotes
Authors
Paul Bowles

"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless."

Source : Paul Bowles (1979). “Collected stories, 1939-1976”

Paul Bowles

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“The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.”
“We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence....”
“Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.”

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“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
“We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.”
“From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road”
“Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”
“It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome.”

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