"Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on."
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"If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!"
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"The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman."
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"To hell with being ashamed of what you liked."
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"Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again."
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"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"
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"Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness."
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"If you're going through hell, don't stop, keep moving!"
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"Hell is the inability to love."
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"Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself."
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"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
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"You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy."
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"I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell."
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"Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business."
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"Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing."
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"If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell."
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"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
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"As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out."
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"What the hell is an oboe?"
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"We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell."
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