Quote of the day
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
Paul Bowles

Born: December 30, 1910
Died: November 18, 1999 (aged 88)
Bio: Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, Morocco, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
Known for:
- The Sheltering Sky (1949)
- The spider's house (1955)
- Let It Come Down (1952)
- Up Above the World (1966)
- The Stories of Paul Bowles