Top 33 Bentley Little Quotes
#1. This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.
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#2. Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
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#3. Her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed.
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#4. New Year's has never been a real holiday to me anyway. There's no gifts, no feast, just ... bad TV.
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#5. Her last call, at midnight, had been the worst. "I'll pull your cock out of your asshole," she'd said, and for some reason her voice at that moment had reminded him of his mother's.
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#6. The cool breeze that ruffled her hair felt like something more than wind.
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#7. Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
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#8. I think the internet is a great marketing tool
but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
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#9. He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.
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#10. I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
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#11. Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
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#12. A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.
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#13. No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it.
"What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns.
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#14. Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
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#16. There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.
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#17. Remember: not all that is fiction is fictional, and not all that is true is transparent.
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#18. The dead don't think of the living," Ethan said. "That part of their life is over.
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#19. I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
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#21. If you ask me, people are unnecessarily gloomy about the end of the world.
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#22. I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell
and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.
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#23. Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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#24. His father's punishments were driven by disappointment, partly in the boy, mostly in himself.
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#25. His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.
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#26. People with daddy issues can always spot a fellow traveler.
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#27. They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.
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#28. If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions
which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
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#29. In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.
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#31. After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you?
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#32. Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can
plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.
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#33. An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.
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