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Paul Bowles
Author profile
born
in Jamaica, Queens, NY, The United States
December 10, 1910
died
November 18, 1999
gender
male
website
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The Sheltering Sky
— published 1946 — 37 editions |
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Let it Come Down
— published 1952 — 20 editions |
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The Stories of Paul Bowles
by Paul Bowles, Robert Stone — 6 editions |
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The Spider's House
by Paul Bowles, Francine Prose — published 1955 — 17 editions |
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Collected Stories, 1939-1976
by Paul Bowles, Gore Vidal — published 1978 — 4 editions |
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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
— published 1950 — 8 editions |
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Up Above the World
— published 1966 — 16 editions |
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Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
by Paul Bowles, Edmund White — published 1957 — 9 editions |
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A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories
— published 1992 — 4 editions |
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
by Paul Bowles, Jack Bowles — published 1981 |
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“Death 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 Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
“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, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― Paul Bowles
― Paul Bowles
“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 that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
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