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> [“Although the ending was more John Carpenter than John Updike, Carroll hadn't come across anything like it in any of the horror magazines, either, not lately. It was, for twenty-five pages, the almost completely naturalistic story of a woman being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/although-the-ending-was-more-john-carpenter-than-john-updike-carroll/)

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## More by Joe Hill

> [ Music \[is\] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/music-is-the-third-rail-of-life-you-grabbed-it-to-shock-yourself-out/)

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> [“He had despised that Mary with her idiot smile, symbol of a story that meant nothing, servant of a God who no good to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/he-had-despised-that-mary-with-her-idiot-smile-symbol-of-a-story-that/)

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> [“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/he-d-possessed-all-the-key-elements-of-a-school-shooter-hormones/)

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> [I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/i-have-nothing-to-say-for-myself-only-that-i-have-always-tried-to/)

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> [Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/work-and-pray-live-on-hay-youll-get-pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die/)

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> [“If hell was anything, it was talk radio — and family.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/if-hell-was-anything-it-was-talk-radio-and-family/)

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> [“Vic’s father was badass. Other dads built things. Hers blew shit up and rode away on a Harley, smoking the cigarette he used to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/vic-s-father-was-badass-other-dads-built-things-hers-blew-shit-up-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/it-s-like-in-the-bible-you-can-t-always-get-what-you-want-but-if-you/)

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> [“The air was rank, and on my left, in a broad green meadow, arranged neatly in pairs, were dead lions and dead walruses and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/the-air-was-rank-and-on-my-left-in-a-broad-green-meadow-arranged/)

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> [“Secrets are the prisons we make for ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/secrets-are-the-prisons-we-make-for-ourselves/)

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> [“a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/a-room-full-of-books-smelled-like-dessert-a-sweet-snack-made-of-figs/)

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> [“When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/when-you-were-a-goth-it-was-important-to-at-least-imply-the/)

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> [“At the end, I get to be the person I always wanted to be," she thought.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/at-the-end-i-get-to-be-the-person-i-always-wanted-to-be-she-thought/)

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> [“They came to believe their doctors were holding back limited quantities of a cure, and attempted to take them hostage. They formed armies, congresses,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/they-came-to-believe-their-doctors-were-holding-back-limited/)

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> [“He had his flaws - he'd voted for Reagan, he believed that Carl Weathers was a GREAT thespian, and he grew emotional listening to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/he-had-his-flaws-he-d-voted-for-reagan-he-believed-that-carl-weathers/)

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