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Best Quotes by Joe Hill (Top 10)
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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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You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.
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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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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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Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
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Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
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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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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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All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.
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Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
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More Joe Hill Quotes
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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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Don't believe everything you hear today
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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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Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?
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I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.
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I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.
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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 a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.
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...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...
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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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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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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
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