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"In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it."
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"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is-other people!"

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."

"People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God."

"I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way."
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"Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring."

"And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in."

"Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning."

"When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston."

"Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit."

"I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend."

"I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson."
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