Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing of mortal sin. He had committed many, he believed, but the confessional had saved him. He always got to confession on time – that is, before he died. And he knocked on wood whenever he thought of it – he always would get there on time – before he died. So Arturo was pretty sure he wouldn't go to hell when he died. For two reasons. The confessional, and the fact that he was a fast runner. John Fante
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
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Bill Hicks
Let this hell be our heaven.
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Richard Matheson
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
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Chuck Palahniuk
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child, " he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"" They go to hell, " was my ready and orthodox answer." And what is hell? Can you tell...
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Unknown
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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Peter Ustinov
More Quotes By John Fante
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
I went to the library. I looked at the magazines, at the pictures in them. One day I went to the bookshelves, and pulled out a book. It was Winesburg, Ohio. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I sat at a long mahogany table and began to read. All...
I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.
(..) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face...
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
