"[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?"
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"Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her."
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"If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it."
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"Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them."
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"It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love."
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"Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it."
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"To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer."
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"Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away."
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"I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell."
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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
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"I myself am hell; nobody's here"
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"It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell."
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"If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell."
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"The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time."
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"How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?"
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"No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on."
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"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
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"One sees more devils than vast hell can hold"
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"How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite."
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"Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom."
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