One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.
Paul BowlesDeath is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens 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's 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. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
Paul BowlesTags: sheltering-sky-bowles-death-life
These empty days. How do you spend them?
Paul BowlesAnd yet always you feel as though you understood perfectly the people and why they do everything as they do.Still you are absolutely severed from them.
Paul BowlesThe bar was stuffy and melancholy. It was full of the sadness inherent in all deracinated things.
Paul BowlesIf you don’t know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.
Paul BowlesOnce you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier," his mother said to him.
Paul BowlesTags: happiness
It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.
Paul BowlesTags: incorruptible
The Americans are the nature of the future," she would announce in her hearty voice. "Here's to 'em. God bless their gadgets, great and small, God bless Frigidaire, Tampax and Coca-Cola. Yes, even Coca-Cola,darling." (It was generally conceded that Coca-Cola's advertising was ruining the picturesqueness of Morocco.)
Paul BowlesTags: coca-cola
It's a madhouse, of course. A complete, utter madhouse. I only hope to God it remains one.
Paul BowlesTags: international-zone
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