Paul Bowles: Likeness

Paul Bowles was American composer, writer, translator. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”

Source: The Spider's House

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

Paul Bowles book Let It Come Down

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