“Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.”
Source: The Book Thief
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“A sexy woman is heaven to behold, but hell to live.”
Original: (it) Una donna sexy è il paradiso da vedere, ma un inferno da vivere.
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Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

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Video game commentary, Outlast (September 4~8, 2013)
Source: Outlast | Part 1 | THE TERROR BEGINS, Markiplier, wikipedia:Markiplier, September 4, 2013, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ri1v8vTTM,

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Speech at the First World Congress on Literacy (2 February 2005) paraphrasing a line in John Milton's Paradise Lost; quoted in Granma

“The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter was that his name wasn't Henry Porter.”
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)