"I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven."

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Source : Song: The Jig Is Up, Album: Jill Sobule, 1995

Jill Sobule

“Damn everything but the circus”
“Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ”
“The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”

Source : Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.76
“Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.”
“However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.”
“If youâ€™re aggressive in your dealings, thatâ€™s how youâ€™ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and youâ€™ll never have peace of mind.”
“Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”

Source : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press
“But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.”

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