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"If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally."
"Hell is not to love anymore."
"Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah."
"I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!"
"There are no air conditioners in Hell"
"Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals."
"Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points."
"I have N'Sync and Aerosmith and Britney Spears. I have a trifecta from hell."
"The self holds both a hell and a heaven."
"There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma."
"Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell."
"I come straight from hell, Cell 23"
"...heaven for climate, and hell for society."
"Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part."
"My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell."
"Hell is for other people."
"Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on."
"Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess."
"I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes."
"Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere."
