Jane Bowles Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jane Bowles
Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see. — Jane Bowles
I didn't tell her because I wanted the buildings to stay in place for her and i wanted the stars to be over her head and not cockeyed--I wanted her to be able to walk in the park and feed the birdies in years to come with some other fine human being hanging onto her arm. I didn't want her to have to lock something up inside of her and look out at the world through a nailed window. — Jane Bowles
This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the more desperately important now that she was almost certain, in her innermost heart, that her trip was a failure. Her attitude was not an astonishing one, since like many others she conceived of her life as separate from herself; the road was laid out always a little ahead of her by scared hands, and she walked down it without a question. This road, which was her life, would go on existing after her death, even as her death existed while she still lived. — Jane Bowles
You see, I have a different nature than he has. What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see. — Jane Bowles
I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway. — Jane Bowles
Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often. — Jane Bowles
Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being. — Jane Bowles
My father predicted everything when he said I would procrastinate until I died. — Jane Bowles
True enough," said Mrs. Copperfield, bringing her fist down on the table and looking very mean. "I have gone to pieces, which is a thing I've wanted to do for years. I know I am as guilty as I can be, but I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before. — Jane Bowles
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. — Jane Bowles
It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst. — Jane Bowles
I am a writer and I want to write. — Jane Bowles
A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money. — Jane Bowles
I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was. — Jane Bowles
I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too. — Jane Bowles
The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog. — Jane Bowles
..it is against my entire code, but then, I have never even begun to use my code, although I judge everything by it. — Jane Bowles
I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day. — Jane Bowles