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“But I ain’t made up my mind on hell, not yet. Maybe it’s truly a-burning away, down below our feet, right this minute.”
“Or either, the fire down in there is what made folks decide what hell was.”

— Manly Wade Wellman

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I don’t rightly know today whether I was scared at that time. A thing can come along and happen to you, and you don’t have the time to make up your mind if you’re scared, because there’s so almighty much else you’ve got to tend to somehow.

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Anyway, you think for yourself. And if a man can’t do that, he isn’t really thinking.

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Mind your feet, don’t stumble, and don’t be afraid. Because there never was a better time not to be afraid.

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Got some dirty tricks? If that’s how it is, you done drove your ducks to the wrong puddle.

By now the rain rushed down instead of fell down. It was like what my old folks used to call raining tomcats and hoe handles.

But if I feared it, I faced up to it anyway. A man’s got to be a man sometime. You show me one who was nair afraid, and I’ll right away show you one that nair in his life came up against aught to fear.

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