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Tangier Quotes

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Edward Flaherty
“Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities.”
Edward Flaherty

Paul Bowles
“Tangier is more New York than New York. ... Then you must see how alike the two places are. The life revolves wholly about the making of money. Practically everyone is dishonest. In New York you have Wall Street, here you have the Bourse. ... In New York you have the slick financiers, here the money changers. In New York you have your racketeers. Here you have your smugglers. And you have every nationality and no civic pride.”
Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down

“During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live and act as he wanted with interference from neither official state authority nor unofficial moral authority. In fact, he wanted to live in a place where he was out of place and where consequently he would be free.”
Greg A. Mullins

Paul Bowles
“Tangier is a one-horse town that happens to have its own government.”
Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down

“There is a Cinzano on the table beside me and a siphon of aerated water. I am at a loss to know how ants have got into the siphon. Neither the ants themselves nor the people who filled the siphons can have intended this.”
Peter Mayne