"No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror."

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Source : Paul Bowles, Jeffrey Miller (2014). “In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles”, p.192, Macmillan

Paul Bowles

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I will not be doing any FHM or crazy Maxim magazines. I will leave that to the other actresses in Hollywood who want to shed their clothes because they think that's beneficial to them. I would much rather chose a creative way - like in a movie.”
“Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.”
“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
“How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.”
“I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.”

Source : "Voice of the Maghreb" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.
“I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take my book, I take my stick On the Sabbath day, In woody nooks and valleys I hide myself away. To ponder there in quiet God's Universal Plan, Resolved that church and Sabbath Were never made for man.”
“Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.”

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