Top 20 Jane Bowles Quotes (2024 Update)

Jane Bowles Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren’t cut out to do.”

2. “I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren’t cut out to do.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.”

4. “I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.”

5. “Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.”

6. “Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.”

7. “Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.”

8. “Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “I wanted to be a religious leader when I was young and now I just reside in my house and try not to be too unhappy. I have a friend living with me, which makes it easier.”

9. “I wanted to be a religious leader when I was young and now I just reside in my house and try not to be too unhappy. I have a friend living with me, which makes it easier.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “I am less morose. I am just showing the results of the terrific fight that I have waged inside of myself, and you know that the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.”

10. “I am less morose. I am just showing the results of the terrific fight that I have waged inside of myself, and you know that the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “One must allow that a certain amount of carelessness in one’s nature often accomplishes what the will is incapable of doing.”

11. “One must allow that a certain amount of carelessness in one’s nature often accomplishes what the will is incapable of doing.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.”

13. “I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “Well,” said Miss Goering, “perhaps my maneuvers do seem a little strange, but I have thought for a long time now that often, so very often, heroes who believe themselves to be monsters because they are so far removed from other men turn around much later and see really monstrous acts being committed in the name of something mediocre.”

15. “Well,” said Miss Goering, “perhaps my maneuvers do seem a little strange, but I have thought for a long time now that often, so very often, heroes who believe themselves to be monsters because they are so far removed from other men turn around much later and see really monstrous acts being committed in the name of something mediocre.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.”

17. “It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “The world and all the people in it had suddenly slipped beyond her comprehension and she felt in great danger of losing the whole world once and for all – a feeling that is difficult to explain.”

19. “The world and all the people in it had suddenly slipped beyond her comprehension and she felt in great danger of losing the whole world once and for all – a feeling that is difficult to explain.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.”

20. “I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “Once upon a time I had a dog and a future, and a girl,” he said, “but that is no longer so.”

21. “Once upon a time I had a dog and a future, and a girl,” he said, “but that is no longer so.”

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Jane Bowles Quote: “You were mean and worried then and you’re mean and worried now. The expression on your face hasn’t changed one bit. It’s a dangerous man who reacts more or less in the same way to good news or bad news.”

22. “You were mean and worried then and you’re mean and worried now. The expression on your face hasn’t changed one bit. It’s a dangerous man who reacts more or less in the same way to good news or bad news.”

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