I'm a writer living near Nashville, and maybe the only one within a 50-mile radius who's never written a song. Writing fiction is my preference, but journalism provides my daily bread. I'm from the Clark Kent school of journalism - I never carry a pad to take notes, but rely on my super-memory. Actually, in my stories I make up quotes, making people sound more interesting and well-spoken than they are, so they never object. You know how Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood") gave birth to the "non-fiction novel?" I'm working on popularizing the "fictional news" story.

Religion & Spirituality > Heaven, Hell & Afterlife Conception of Heaven

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Various writers, wits and sages have said, at one time or another, that they hoped or prayed that they wouldn't go to Heaven, because Hell had all the interesting people.
The flippancy of the jest represents, I think, most intelligent people's attitude toward the notions of Heaven and Hell as physical realms. That is: they are laughable.
It's certainly possible that the Almighty has plans to boil me like a peanut in a vat of burning oil, for all eternity, in the company of other damned souls bobbing and shrieking all around me. There's also the chance that he may issue me a stringed...

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