Paul Bowles Quotes
Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.
Bowles, Paul. The Sheltering Sky. New Directions, 1949, p. 110.
He was referring to foreign aid where plans developed by one culture tended not to work will in the recipient culture. He advocated an empirical deployment of the money in a manner consistent with the local cultures and norms. Opponents argue that most third world recipient culture have norms of corruption and inefficiency and taxpayers of donor countries will not long support their money being channeled into the pockets of corrupt leaders.
Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
