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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
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- Paul Bowles
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- Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Paul Bowles: life dates 1910 to 1999. Wikidata Q358342, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358342 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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