Paul Bowles citáty a výroky
Paul Bowles: Citáty anglicky
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 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.”
Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky
“She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.”
Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky
Zdroj: The Spider's House
“We're all monsters," said Daisy with enthusiasm. "It's the Age of Monsters.”
Zdroj: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 238
“Africa was a big place and would offer its own suggestions”
Zdroj: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 199
“Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.”
Zdroj: Points in Time (1982), p. 28
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.”
Zdroj: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 231