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-Few
are saved, infinitely more are damned.
Martin Luther
-Hell
is other people.
Jean Paul Sartre
-Hell
is oneself.
-I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S. Eliot
-Pleased
to meet you; hope you guess my name…
Mick Jagger/ Keith Richards- Sympathy for theDevil
-The
Devils' cleverest wile to make men believe he does not exist.
Gerald C. Treacy
-Hell
is full of good meanings and best wishes.
-George Herbert
-Talk
of the Devil and he'll appear.
-Erasmus
-This
will hurt a little, but it's something you'll get used to.
-Learn to swim.
Tool- Aenima
-What?
Can the Devil speak true?
-As flies to wanton boys are men to the gods. They kill us for their
sport.
- And like a rat without a tail- I'll do. I'll do. I'll do.
- That one can smile, and smile, and be a villian
- For you in me can nothing worthy prove; Unless you would devise some
virtuous lie
- Since I cannot prove a lover... I am determined to prove a villain
- I have supp'd full with horrors
- Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile, and cry, content, to that
which grieves ...
-There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find
it out.
- I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is southerly, I know a
hawk from a hand-saw.
-And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs
- Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time into this breathing world,
scarce half made up.
-Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, by drunken prophecies, libels,
and dreams.
- If he prove as true and just as I am subtle, false and treacherous…
- And I, no friends to back my suit at all, but the plain Devil and
dissembling looks…
- I do mistake my person all this while.
- O lord, methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of
waters in my ears…
- O coward conscience, how doest thou afflict me?
- What do fear? Myself? There is none else by….
- And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Shakespeare- Macbeth, Richard III, Othello'
King Lear, Hamlet
- My name is Legion: For we are many.
Mark 5:9
-It
is dangerous to confuse children for angels.
Magnolia
-We are all animals, my lady.
Darkness- Legend
-I
will show you fear in a handful of dust.
John Keats
-Evil
is easy, and comes in infinite forms.
Pascal
-Evil
is an exact science- being carefully, correctly wrong.
- God is not mocked. He knows our business.
Shriekback - Nemesis
-I
am not hungry, but thank goodness, I am greedy.
Punch
-Never
trust the artist. Trust the tale.
D.H Lawrence - Studies in Classic American Literature
-The
cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson - Truth of Intercourse
-Turning,
I spit in the lock and the knob turns.
-I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
Frank O'Hare
-We
are vain, and we are blind. I hate people when they're not polite.
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
-He
gave what little wealth he had, to build a house for fools and mad…
Swift
-The
mad are all in God's keeping.
Kipling - Kim
-"I
can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir.' said Alice, "because I'm not
myself, you see."
- "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat.
"Or you wouldn't have come here."
- "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm
mad, you're mad."
- Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
-What I tell you three times is true.
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland, The Great Snark Hunt
-I
shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive
me: that's His.
Catherine the Great
-Hell
is paved with intentions.
Samuel Johnson
He
who worships in secret shall be rewarded.
Matthew
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Art
in the the Allegations guestbook, the Ghost Train and several other
pages are the works of the late Edward Gorey, collected from the following
works:
Amphigorey
Amphigorey II
Amphigorey Also
As well as many other sources, both print and online. Mr. Gorey changed
my perceptions of humor, art and elegance - I cannot recommend his work
strongly enough.
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