Top 17 Poe Ballantine Quotes

#1. Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

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#2. Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

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#3. One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.

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#4. There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

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#5. I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

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#6. Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

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#7. Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.

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#8. I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.

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#9. A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

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#10. All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

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#11. 'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

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#12. I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

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#13. Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'

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#14. I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

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#15. Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

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#16. I'm that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm's way.

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#17. I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

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