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Paul Bowles Quotes

1910–1999 United States

Paul Bowles (30 December 1910 – 18 November 1999) was a composer, author, and traveler.

United States
Composers
Memoirists
Novelists
Short story writers

Also known as: Bowles, Paul, Paul bowles, Let It Come Down, The Sheltering Sky

Random Paul Bowles quote

9 quotes

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

The Sheltering Sky (1949)

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

Points in Time (1982)

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.

The Sheltering Sky (1949)

For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell.

Let It Come Down (1952)

"We're all monsters," said Daisy with enthusiasm. "It's the Age of Monsters."

Let It Come Down (1952)

For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence — it was more expedient and comforting.

The Sheltering Sky (1949)

Dr Slade went in to lunch in a state of desperate boredom tempered with resentment; it had shaken him a little to see how bad luck could be prolonged to such unlikely lengths.

Up Above the World (1966)

Africa was a big place and would offer its own suggestions

Let It Come Down (1952)

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

The Sheltering Sky (1949)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Bowles (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.