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I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind. (Joe Hill)
Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask. View quote
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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. View quote
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Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant. View quote
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Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him. (Joe Hill)
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. View quote
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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. View quote
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And he paddled away in his douche canoe. View quote
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You can't let facts get in the way of the truth. View quote
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I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward. View quote
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Workingmen of all countries, unite, Side by side we for freedom will fight: When the world and its wealth we have gained To the grafters we'll sing this refrain: You will eat, bye and bye, When you've learned how to cook and to fry Chop some wood, 'twill do you good, And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye. View quote
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There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy. View quote
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Because love requires context. View quote
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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. View quote
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It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness. (Joe Hill)
When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier. View quote
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I am; I was. I want to be. View quote
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There is pow'r, there is pow'r In a band of workingmen. When they stand hand in hand, That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r That must rule in every land - One Industrial Union Grand. View quote
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Horror was rooted in sympathy... in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. View quote
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