410 Quotes by Joe Hill

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The Devil knows that only those with the courage to risk their souls for love are entitled to have a soul, even if God does not.

With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381

Men who love the Stones are fixated on cock.

The sky was the exact filthy gray of a Polaroid just beginning to develop.

Arson is almost as good as Prozac.

Bing," Manx said, "I thought I told you to put Mr. and Mrs. de Zoet in the spare room!""Well," Bing said, "they aren't hurting anyone.""No. Of course they're not hurting anyone. They're dead! But that's no reason to have them underfoot either!

But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonged under someone's thumb, and if you wanted mother's little helper from your dear doctor you better have the silver, take it or leave it, and don't come crying for sympathy, that was just for the devil.

There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone ALWAYS dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.