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“Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.”
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“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”
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“I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.”
Source : Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.”
Source : "Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault". Interview with Joe Einhorn, techcrunch.com. August 5, 2012.
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“Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.”
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“I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.”
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“Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.”
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“I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.”