"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
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Paul Bowles December 30, 1910 to November 18, 1999 Born in Jamaica, Queens, NYC & Died in Tangier, Morocco Best known for his novel The Sheltering Sky, and for his drug use.
Quote "Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really."
Off-Site Resource The Official Paul Bowles Website
Bibliography Novels The Sheltering Sky - 1949 Let It Come Down - 1952 The Spider's House - 1955 Up Above the World - 1966 Too Far from Home - 1991
Short Story Collections A Little Stone - 1950 The Delicate Prey and Other Stories - 1950 The Hours after Noon - 1959 A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard - 1962 The Time of Friendship - 1967 Pages from Cold Point and Other Stories - 1968 Three Tales - 1975 Things Gone and Things Still Here - 1977 Collected Stories, (1939-1976) - 1979 Unwelcome Words: Seven Stories - 1988
Poetry Two Poems - 1933 Scenes - 1968 The Thicket of Spring - 1972 Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977 - 1981
Other Books Without Stopping: An Autobiography - 1972
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"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
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