Joe Hill Quotes

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• I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.
• Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
• Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
• I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.
• The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.…
• Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.
• He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.…
• Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.
• It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible…
• Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.
• It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but…
• You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.
• The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could…
• God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take…
• He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required…
• The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
• I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What…
• The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.
• The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is…
• But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world,…

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