--- title: "1 Damp Quotes By Paul Bowles" description: "1 Damp quotes by Paul Bowles. Plus more from Paul Bowles and more Damp sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/paul-bowles-3731_baked_that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry_3235871.jpg" --- > [That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry-and-hard-to-feel-the-vaporous/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/paul-bowles-3731_baked_that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry_3235871.jpg) ## Other authors on Damp ## More by Paul Bowles > [“When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/when-i-was-young-before-i-was-twenty-i-mean-i-used-to-think-that-life/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/a-black-star-appears-a-point-of-darkness-in-the-night-sky-s-clarity/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/we-ve-never-managed-either-one-of-us-to-get-all-the-way-into-life-we/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/everyone-is-isolated-from-everyone-else-the-concept-of-society-is/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/illness-reduces-man-to-his-basic-state-a-cloaca-in-which-the-chemical/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“You know what?” he said with great earnestness. “I think we’re both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We’ve never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/you-know-what-he-said-with-great-earnestness-i-think-we-re-both/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“... how could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/how-could-any-young-man-merely-sit-back-and-wait-for-divine-justice/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/there-could-be-nothing-he-reflected-to-equal-a-government-which-was/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/not-all-the-ravages-caused-by-our-merciless-age-are-tangible-ones-the/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“What a wonderful thing to be an American!" he said impetuously. "Yes," said Dyar automatically, never having given much thought to what it would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/what-a-wonderful-thing-to-be-an-american-he-said-impetuously-yes-said/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/how-peaceful-it-was-with-the-light-evening-breeze-stirring-the-small/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/because-we-don-t-know-when-we-will-die-we-get-to-think-of-life-as-an/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/she-was-saved-from-prettiness-by-the-intensity-of-her-gaze/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they'll just go on the same way. If they get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/if-people-are-living-the-same-as-always-with-their-bellies-full-of/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) > [“Scene VI (1940) It is our fault we love only the skull of Beauty Without knowing who she was, of what she died. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/scene-vi-1940-it-is-our-fault-we-love-only-the-skull-of-beauty/) [Paul Bowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bowles/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/damp/paul-bowles/#itemlist", "name": "1 Damp Quotes By Paul Bowles", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Bowles" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bowles/that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry-and-hard-to-feel-the-vaporous/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/paul-bowles-3731_baked_that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry_3235871.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/paul-bowles-3731_baked_that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry_3235871.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/paul-bowles-3731_baked_that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry_3235871.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to…” — Paul Bowles", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/damp/paul-bowles/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/damp/paul-bowles/", "name": "Damp Quotes by Paul Bowles", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/damp/paul-bowles/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/paul-bowles-3731_baked_that-was-what-he-wanted-to-be-baked-dry_3235871.jpg" }, "description": "1 Damp quotes by Paul Bowles. 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