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. William S. Burroughs
“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)
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. Mark Twain
“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 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 Burroughs
