William S. Burroughs – “Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don’t proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want”
“I have traveled a lot, but my footsteps were in need for a place to linger on for writing, I have no dreamed of a place better than the Grand Socco, where I could leave a part of myself.”(Joseph Kessel was a french adventurer and writer. 1898-1979)
“From the first day and during all the years I spent in Tangier, I liked this white city that lies straddling over its hills, looking through the strait of Gibraltar onto the mountains of Andalusia.” Paul Bowles ( american writer 1910-1999)
Mark Twain– “Tangier is a foreign land if ever there was one, and the true spirit of it can never be found in any book save The Arabian Nights. Here are no white men visible, yet swarms of humanity are all about us. Here is a packed and jammed city enclosed in a massive stone wall which is more than a thousand years old”
William S. Burroughs – “Tangier is the prognostic pulse of the world, like a dream extending from past into future, a frontier between dream and reality–the ‘reality’ of both called into question.”
William S. Burroughs – “There is no town like Tangier town. The place relaxes me so I am subject to dissolve. I can spend three hours looking at the bay with my mouth open like a Kentucky Mountain Boy. Man, I don’t need junk.”
William S. Burroughs – “Tangier is a place where the past and the present exist simultaneously, where anything can happen and usually does.”
Paul Bowles – “Tangier was a place where the unexpected was the norm, and the bizarre was commonplace.”
Tennessee Williams – “Tangier is one of the few remaining places in the world where one can live as freely as one chooses.”
Brion Gysin – “Tangier is a bowl full of secrets, a whispering gallery where all languages are spoken and none are heard.”
(Gysin, a writer and artist, was part of Tangier’s avant-garde scene.)
Juan Goytisolo – “Tangier is a mirror that reflects the contradictions of the Mediterranean—Africa, Europe, and the Arab world in perpetual dialogue.”
(The Spanish writer lived in Tangier for decades.)
Truman Capote – “Tangier is the last refuge of the international bohemian, a place where misfits and dreamers collide.”
(Capote visited Tangier frequently in the 1940s and ’50s.)
Mohamed Choukri – “Tangier is a city that seduces you slowly, then never lets you go.”
Jack Kerouac – “Tangier is a dream where the East and West embrace in a swirl of smoke and spice.”
(Kerouac visited Tangier and was influenced by its Beat-era mystique.)
Allen Ginsberg – “Tangier is a hallucination, a mirage that becomes more real the longer you stay.”
(The Beat poet was fascinated by the city’s chaotic charm.)
Great quotes. Keep posting such kind of references on your blog.
Im really impressed. I’ll certainly add Tangier to my future destinations.