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"I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died."
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"Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?'Yes. Yes, of course.'Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG."
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"Maybe we do go home, finally."
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"I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to you, because you already know what to expect for the rest of eternity. Nothing more and nothing less."
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"What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?"
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"Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so - but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to."
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"I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven."
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"Reincarnation?He shrugged. "I've never seen any evidence that it's real. But I've never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here-and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back."
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"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."
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"There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle over the gas ring."
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"I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
Writing
"Is there no way out of the mind?"
Philosophy
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
Adventure
"I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in."
Creativity
"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."
Identity
"I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired."
Emotion
"Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."
Relationship
"I have a visual imagination."
Creativity
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."
Love
"All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward."
Education
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