Coleman Dowell Quotes

United States, Writer
May 29, 1925 – August, 3, 1985.

Robert Coleman Dowell was an American writer. He was born to Mordon and Beulah Dowell in Adairville, Kentucky on May 29, 1925. Dowell attended several country schools, among them, a one-room school where Latin and Greek were taught

He's experienced. He has a mind. He seduced me and took his time doing it. He's good company. He makes me think. Knowing him has changed me forever.

Coleman Dowell
- Company
- Changed
- Knowing
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Coleman Dowell
- House
- Someone
- Left

All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

Coleman Dowell
- Man
- Animals
- Worlds
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Coleman Dowell
- Life
- Self
- Loss
Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

Coleman Dowell
- Being
- Fiction
- Suffer