33 Quotes by Alden Bell


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    You somehow make it outta here and track me down, you best come with a furious rage--because I got no use for your sympathy.

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    Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind, and she doesn't want any of them sneaking up on her. Sometimes it pays to take a deep look inside even if you get queasy gazing into those dark corners.

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    To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes - to see the nothing that is not rather than the nothing that is everywhere around you. To just be quiet in your mind for a little minute. There are paradises even yet on the abandoned plains of the earth -- and they are not filled with fecund flowering Edens but rather just with sweet unerring silences.

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    It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.

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    Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.

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    Evil's a thing of the mind. We humans got the full measure of it ourselves.Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?I ain't good.

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    He looks like someone who could slap you or kiss you and you wouldn't be able to tell which one is coming and it would mean the same thing either way.

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    He looks again at the face of the little girl. He wonders where she went, that little firecracker life, that smoldering, spitting, whizgig of a girl. He wonders if he can tell from the expression on her face where she's gone to.And he smiles because he can.The angels would want her sure.

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