33 Quotes by Alden Bell

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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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    Beyond the pursuit of meaning and beyond good and evil too, she says. See, it’s a daily chore tryin to do the right thing. Not because the right thing is hard to do – it ain’t. It’s just cause the right thing – well, the right thing’s got a way of eluding you. You give me a compass that tells good from bad, and boy I’ll be a soldier of the righteous truth. But them two things are a slippery business, and tellin them apart might as well be a blind man’s guess.

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    What I mean is I done some things I don’t care to talk about. Little sister, anyone alive’s got a collection of those things. Maybe so, but it’s one thing to feel like there’s a few rotten things knocking around inside you like some beans in a can. But it’s another thing to feel like those things are what your heart and stomach and brain are built out of.

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    She wonders how people can live this kind of life – trapped inside a house with windows everywhere showing you where else you could be.

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    I bet I got places to go that I don’t even know exist yet.

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    Sometimes you gotta bust apart to get yourself put back together.

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