Charles Bowden Quotes

#1. I don't trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don't believe in white wine; I insist on color.

Charles Bowden

#2. There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

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#3. I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

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#4. I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

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#5. Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

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#6. Summertime is always the best of what might be.

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

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#8. Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.

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

Charles Bowden