Joe Hill Quotes

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

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If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

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She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.

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What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

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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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Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet: You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

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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.

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I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.

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I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.

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You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

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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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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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Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

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I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning—organize.
Before his death by firing squad

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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.

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I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

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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?

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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 be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.

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I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

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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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Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

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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 about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.

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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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All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

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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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My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide.
My kin don't need to fuss and moan —
"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone."

My body? — Oh! — If I could choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.

Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my last and final will.
Good luck to all of you.

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I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

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

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