Joe Hill: Something

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

Joe Hill

Source: NOS4A2

Chance

“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.”

Joe Hill

Source: NOS4A2

Love , Happiness

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

Joe Hill

Source: Horns

Way

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

Joe Hill

Source: 20th Century Ghosts

Marriage

“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?”

Joe Hill

Source: Horns

Parting

“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.”

Joe Hill

"The Preacher and the Slave" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave (1911)

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