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Joe Hill Biography

Joe Hill (Gävle, Sweden, October 7, 1879 – Salt Lake City, Utah, November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies"). A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco. Hill, an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular songwriter and cartoonist for the union. His most famous songs include "The Preacher and the Slave" (in which he coined the phrase "pie in the sky"), "The Tramp", "There is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.

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You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

Die, Pie, Pie In The Face, Sky

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

Lived, Lives, People, Things, Tragic, Ugly

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

House, Tree, Waiting

I am; I was. I want to be.

Want

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

Girl, Hot, Man, Men, Mistake, Mistakes

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

Constant, Forever, Fraction, Numbers, Soul

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Facts, Let, Truth, Way

Love requires Context.

Context, Love, Requires

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

Another Chance, Human, Humans, Intense, Urge

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

Built, Grit, Matters, One Day, Stories, Writing

It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

Come, Evil, Exercise, Person, Philosophical, World

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

Experience, Life, Rail, Running, School, Tvs

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

Fall, One Day, Underneath, World

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

Clothes, Considering, Forbade, Law, Men, Polyester

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Know, Mostly, Think, Thinking, Want, You Think You Know

We'll have freedom, love and health
When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

Flag, Flying, Freedom, Red Flags, Workers

God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning.

Allies, Devil, Different, Grifters, Offer, Receive

It's like in the Bible. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it. " "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?"

Keith, Needs, Part, Usually, Want

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

Art, Hungry, Inner, Said, Starved

I liked AC
DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them. " "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself. " At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.

Knowing, Laughing, Lee, Liking, Listening

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