Joe Hill Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Fall, One Day, World

  Joe Hill (2015). “Voluntary Committal”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.

  Joe Hill

  Love You, Giving, And Love

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• You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

  Joe Hill

  Way, Facts

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• Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

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  Sin, Asks, Picks

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• Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence

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  Rip, Kids, Wings

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• Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

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  Reality, Waiting, Fantasy

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

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  Girl, Mistake, Men

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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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  Character, Thinking, Plot

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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.

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  Hero, Guy, Devil

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• I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

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  Writing, One Day, Stories

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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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  Sweet, Book, Snacks

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

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  Red Flags, Flying, Workers

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• 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 thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

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  Men, Law, Clothes

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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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  Block, Healthy, Mind

  Joe Hill (2010). “Heart-Shaped Box”, p.65, Hachette UK

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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

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  Earth, Littles, Labor

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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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  Different, Needs, Breathe

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.145, Hachette UK

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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.

  Joe Hill

  Men, Color, Sticking It

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• And he paddled away in his douche canoe.

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  Douches

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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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  Mind, Firsts, Temples

  Joe Hill (2010). “Heart-Shaped Box”, p.40, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Children, Believe, Differences

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• 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. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.

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  Eye, Heart, Blow

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• 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 to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

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  Impact, Ignorant, Finals

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

  Joe Hill

  Giving, Matter

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

  Joe Hill

  Gold, Matter

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4A2: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

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  Car, Black, Sooner Or Later

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