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Top 15 Charles Bowden Quotes (2024 Update)

Charles Bowden Quote: “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

1. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.”

2. “Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.”

3. “Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.”

4. “What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.”

5. “There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “There will be no first hundred days for this future, there will be no five-year plans. There will be no program. Imagine the problem is that we cannot imagine a future where we possess less but are more. Imagine the problem is a future that terrifies us because we lose our machines but gain our feet and pounding hearts. Then what is to be done?”

6. “There will be no first hundred days for this future, there will be no five-year plans. There will be no program. Imagine the problem is that we cannot imagine a future where we possess less but are more. Imagine the problem is a future that terrifies us because we lose our machines but gain our feet and pounding hearts. Then what is to be done?”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”

7. “Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.”

8. “I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created – civilization, courtesy, decency – is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you.”

9. “We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created – civilization, courtesy, decency – is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “Focusing on the dead women enables Americans to ignore the dead men, and ignoring the dead men enables the United States to ignore the failure of its free-trade schemes, which in Juarez are producing poor people and dead people faster than any other product.”

10. “Focusing on the dead women enables Americans to ignore the dead men, and ignoring the dead men enables the United States to ignore the failure of its free-trade schemes, which in Juarez are producing poor people and dead people faster than any other product.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “There can’t be a summing up, a set of commandments, a safe and sacred way. That is the path to ruin. There is appetite, there is the shift of things, the change in weather, the melting of the ice, the new rivers gouged, and the songs we make up to help us keep going.”

11. “There can’t be a summing up, a set of commandments, a safe and sacred way. That is the path to ruin. There is appetite, there is the shift of things, the change in weather, the melting of the ice, the new rivers gouged, and the songs we make up to help us keep going.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.”

12. “I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.”

13. “I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.”

14. “The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “We think velocity is new, change is new, and this vast tumult and wave of fear is new. And we are wrong. There has never been firm ground for our lives and our only balm has been a forgetfulness of the changes we have endured.”

15. “We think velocity is new, change is new, and this vast tumult and wave of fear is new. And we are wrong. There has never been firm ground for our lives and our only balm has been a forgetfulness of the changes we have endured.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “Safe yield in West Texas has long been abandoned for economic growth.”

16. “Safe yield in West Texas has long been abandoned for economic growth.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “Somehow the United States has become a nation with a permanent air of unreality and yet, by law, custom, or magic, has managed to severely restrict the choice of fantastic roles available to players in this unreality. Halloween is the last night left.”

17. “Somehow the United States has become a nation with a permanent air of unreality and yet, by law, custom, or magic, has managed to severely restrict the choice of fantastic roles available to players in this unreality. Halloween is the last night left.”

— Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden Quote: “Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.”

18. “Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.”

— Charles Bowden

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