Paul Bowles citáty a výroky
Paul Bowles: Citáty anglicky
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.
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
Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky
Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky
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
Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky
Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky
Zdroj: The Spider's House
Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky (1949)
“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
Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky (1949)
“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
Paul Bowles kniha Up Above the World
Zdroj: Up Above the World (1966), p. 23
Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky
Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky (1949), p. 210
“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
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
Paul Bowles kniha The Sheltering Sky
Zdroj: The Sheltering Sky (1949), p. 65
