Jane Bowles Quotes

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I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

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

Jane Bowles
I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

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
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
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 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.

Jane Bowles
Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

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