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Quotes About Rebellion

Fuck narrative elegance.
~ Joe Hill
You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble.
~ Joe Hill
His father had smashed his very first guitar for him, in an early attempt to rid Jude of his musical ambitions. Jude hadn't been able to repeat the act himself, not even onstage, for show, when he could afford all the guitars he wanted. He was, however, perfectly willing to use one as a weapon to defend himself. In a sense he supposed he had always used them as weapons.
~ Joe Hill
She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.
~ Joe Hill
I put the Fifth of November and the Fourth of July to shame. Who needs Roman candles when you've got me?
~ Joe Hill
I fucking think they fucking belong the fuck to me, I can swear too, mate, I'm English. We swear without fear. The C-word? We say that too: cunt cunt cunty cunt cuntcunt. Go on, now. Get lost, you loudmouthed cunt.
~ Joe Hill
He opened his mouth for a plastic spoonful of peach. She followed it with a long kiss that tasted of golden syrup. When she broke away from him he was smiling. Nick, Renée, and Allie began to clap, standing in a line behind them. Harper showed them her middle finger and kissed him again.
~ Joe Hill
Get a spoonful of this, motherfuckers. Harper
~ Joe Hill
You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble. "Why?
~ Joe Hill
She thought, too, with a certain calm satisfaction, that if the bridge did crash into the river, ten stories below, and she was smashed in the rubble, it would be her parents' fault for fighting and driving her out of the house, and that would teach them.
~ Joe Hill
Hopefully, over the years of being best friends, Lee would learn the truth about music: that it was 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 and TV and loading the dishwasher after dinner.
~ Joe Hill
Suck my twinkie,asshole.
~ Joe Hill
Ten pojeb chce, ?eby ka?dy dzie? by? Bo?ym Narodzeniem, ale ja mu, kurwa, urz?dz? Dzie? Niepodleg?o?ci.
~ Joe Hill
They came to believe their doctors were holding back limited quantities of a cure, and attempted to take them hostage. They formed armies, congresses, religions; plotted rebellions, fomented treasons, practiced heresies.
~ Joe Hill
But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonged under someone's thumb, and if you wanted mother's little helper from your dear doctor you better have the silver, take it or leave it, and don't come crying for sympathy, that was just for the devil.
~ Joe Hill
Hopefully, over the years of being best friends, Lee would learn the truth about music: that it was 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 and TV and loading the dishwasher after dinner.
~ Joe Hill
stared at the herd, and they stared back. One of them stood in profile to the house, half a ton of horse. The scars scrawled across his side looked like they might be a decade old, not a few hours, but for all that, they were quite distinct, in silver relief against his fine white hair. Hacked there in the horse's flesh were the words FUCK YOU. They whinnied together, the pack of them. It sounded like laughter.
~ Joe Hill
Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH...
~ Joe Kelly
It seemed like the only thing to do was to crank the volume of my tape of British music in protest. Even though I was the only one who could hear it, I felt like I was doing something important.
~ Joe Pernice
A ogni modo, le sigarette non mi piacciono. Il mio vecchio non era forse uscito a comprare le sigarette per non tornare piú? Insomma: le sigarette dànno fastidio, provocano il cancro e fanno sparire la gente.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Every so often, the universe must just get bored and decide to really cut loose.
~ Joe Schreiber
The hippy movement was a failure.
~ Joe Strummer
rebels captured that base and
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...
~ Joel N. Ross