Joe Hill Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”
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“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”
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“... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”
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“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
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“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
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“Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”
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“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
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“I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.”
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“I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.”
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“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”
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“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.”
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“She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.”
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“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”
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“It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?”
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“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”
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“The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.”
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“Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.”
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“You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.”
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“To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.”
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“She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.”
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“Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.”
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“What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.”
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“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
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“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”
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“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”
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“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
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“That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.”
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“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.”
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“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”
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