Quotes by Joe Hill

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Joe Hill is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh but combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.
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He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not th...

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Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

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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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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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He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

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I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't help it.

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In a friendship, especially in a friendship between two young boys, you are allowed to inflict a certain amount of pain. This is even expected. But you must cause no serious injury; you must never, under any circumstances, leave wounds that will resu...

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He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leaping roots and rocks without seeing them. As he went, the hill got steeper and steeper, until it was really like falling. He was going too fast and he k...

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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 s...

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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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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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He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

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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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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 s...

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God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don...

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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 ...

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Terry was cool, cooler then Ig would ever be, but he was afraid. His fear narrowed his vision so that he couldn't see anything except what he stood to lose.

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For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only ...

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I am; I was. I want to be.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJoe Hill
  • DescriptionSwedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
  • AliasesJoel Emmanuel Hägglund; Joseph Hillström
  • BornOctober 7, 1879
  • DiedNovember 19, 1915
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSongwriter