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Charles Bowden

16 quotes in 141 categories

[Wikipedia] Charles Clyde Bowden was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was best known for his work documenting violence on the Mexico-United States border, especially in and around Ciudad Juarez.

Quotes by Charles Bowden

“The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is…

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“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that…

Motivation

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I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three…

Army

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Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources,…

Buried

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What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

Denied

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Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on…

Billions

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“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the…

Different world

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I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and…

Answers

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“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

Death

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“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should…

Character

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There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The…

Behinds

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“I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that…

Computers

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Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

Alive

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If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency…

Citizens

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Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily…

Asks

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“Thirty or forty years from now, the American adventures into the bowels of the Middle East will be forgotten details of a…

Adventure

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