Poe Ballantine Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Poe Ballantine:

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#9a5c25a8

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.'
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#951f6d0f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#637b38d0

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#e1606fee

'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#e8f4ddb6

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.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#cd631833

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.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#4aa7f214

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.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#cb4f7230

I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#1635368c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#9a22a00c

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.
~Poe Ballantine


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#ca81f7ee

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.
~Poe Ballantine


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#72103285

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/poe-ballantine-quotes/#a3305cdb

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