Paul Bowles citáty

Paul Bowles byl americký spisovatel a hudební skladatel, který prožil většinu života v Tangeru.

✵ 30. prosinec 1910 – 18. listopad 1999
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“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.”

Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky (1949)
Kontext: 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, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

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

Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky (1949)
Kontext: 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, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

“The soul is the weariest part of the body.”

Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky

Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky

“She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.”

Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky

Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky

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

Paul Bowles kniha Let It Come Down

Zdroj: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 238

“Africa was a big place and would offer its own suggestions”

Paul Bowles kniha Let It Come Down

Zdroj: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 199

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

Paul Bowles kniha Points in Time

Zdroj: Points in Time (1982), p. 28

“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.”

Letter to Charles Henri Ford (25 January 1948), as published in In Touch : The Letters of Paul Bowles (1995) edited by Jeffrey Miller, p. 192

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

Paul Bowles kniha Let It Come Down

Zdroj: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 231

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