that's hell

I've never found heaven, for example, a particularly interesting place to go. 

In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, 

didn't bother to spring for two joints-heaven and hell. 

They're the same place, 

but heaven is when you get everything you want 

and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends 

and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. 

Hell is the same place-no fire and brimstone-but they just all pass by 

and don't see you. 

There's nothing, no recognition.

 You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. 

You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody

 because they don't see you. 

That's hell.

Keith Richards

'Life'

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in hell

 If you hurt people, if you know you’re hurting them, you go to Hell,’ Ingrid said. 

‘In Hell you have to watch the people you hurt, the ones who are still alive. 

If two people you hurt ever get together, 
you have to watch everything they do very closely.
But you can’t hear them. Everyone in Hell is deaf. 

You just have to watch the people you hurt without knowing 
what they’re talking about. 

Of course, Hell being Hell, 

you think they’re talking about you.

John Irving

'Until I find You'

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heaven or hell

Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always.

 Either heaven, or hell: 

no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between 

for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance 

or shame or repentance overtakes us.

William Faulkner 

 'The Wild Palms'

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