Author: Paul Bowles

Cites

• Koran (1)
  • IN: The Spider's House (1955) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Let it Come Down (1952) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: BANQUO: It will be Rayne to Night. 1st MURDERER: Let it come downe. (They set upon Banquo.)
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• Eduardo Mallea (2)
  • IN: The Shattering Sky (1949) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Argentina
  • IN: The Sheltering Sky (1949) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Argentina

Cited by

• Adam Lewis Schroeder (1)
  • IN: Kingdom of Monkeys (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture - nothing, nothing. Her husband reached over and patted her hand. "You're right," he said smiling. "Everything's getting gray, and it'll be grayer. But some places'll withstand the malady longer than you think."
    FROM: The Sheltering Sky, (1949), Novel, US
• Kapka Kassabova (1)
  • IN: Villa Pacifica (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Like any Romantic, I had always been vaguely certain that sometimes during my life I should come into a magic place which in disclosing its secrets would give me wisdom and ecstasy -- perhaps even death
    FROM: NULL, (1972), NULL, US