Alan Gold > Quotes

“Como el señor Keats, el poeta, convertiría el vagar sola y pálida en virtud. Tendría que hacerse alguien, y no la esposa de alguien”
― Alan Gold, Bell of the Desert

“Y había decidido que Persia, la misteriosa y exótica Persia, era el sitio donde se convertiría en alguien, donde haría que la sociedad valorará su diferencia y no la excluyera por ella”
― Alan Gold, Bell of the Desert

“The German philosopher Nietzsche said that there are many more unhappy marriages than unhappy people. It isn't lack of love which makes for unhappy marriages, but lack of friendship within the marriage.
Friendship is far more demanding than marriage, which is, after all, only a contract dealing with property and inheritance (from 'Bell of the Desert' by Alan Gold)”
― Alan Gold, Bell of the Desert

“She hated religion as much as she loved its architecture. She detested the pomposity of its spiritual leaders, be they Muslim, Christian or Jews. Whenever she spoke to them, she was outraged by their confident certainty that they were right and all others were wrong, their self-righteousness, haughtiness and aggrandizement. The art and architecture of religion had been amongst mankind's finest achievements, but its inspiration had brought destruction to countless millions. Even the ancient artefacts she'd personally uncovered in the desert, monuments to humanity's earliest attempts to come to terms with spiritual explanations for natural phenomena, had been exquisite, but etched into their stone or marble were the blood and bones of those who believed differently.”
― Alan Gold, Bell of the Desert

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― Alan Gold, Bell of the Desert

“She had always had a vivid imagination. When she was a slip of a girl, the local school teachers would call her “the dreamer” and “the far-away child” as she’d always be staring into space or out of the window instead of practicing letters and numbers on her slate; when she went to school in Edinburgh to finish off her education, she was regularly reprimanded for wasting her parent’s money because even though her results and marks were generally very good, she often didn’t finish an assignment or hand in her homework and was always accused of being in another world, far away.”
― Alan Gold, The Pretender's Lady

“Description of Frankincense:
The most glorious scent in the whole world comes from an ugly piece of resin which exudes from an unsightly scar on a repulsive tree in a dreadful desert”
― Alan Gold