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"But I didn't done any time then so even my worst imaginations didn't come close to understanding such an experience". pg 14

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"Homeboy's gotta be tweakin hard about this by now." Pg. 13

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"I wrote to discover and I wrote to heal and I wrote to decide. I wrote to make meaning in a world that held none." pg. 21

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"And initially I recognized words as tools to perpetuate a scam."

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"In those first few years when I understood nothing - I wrote to make sense outa the things I observed around me."

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"I can say 'gonna' and 'hermeneutics' in the same sentence and if it doesn't sound authentic, the problem is with the way the world listens and not the way I speak." pg. 23-24

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"I went to jail and I wrote because the writing had value." pg 21

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"...writing that story helped me to bury the past until it was safe to resurrect it." pg 21

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"I never thought about what I was putting in them tablets as information. Never thought of it as secrets. That wasn't the purpose of writing." Page 11

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"Reclaiming my language- proving that being trailer park trash doesn't preclude intelligence- has gone a long way towards bringing me comfort in my new world" (Foss 24).

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"If anybody had actually thought beyond the words I said, they woulda realized how unlikely that was." pg 12

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"But one thing I learned early on was that people are judged by their use of language - that how they spoke could define them as trailer-park trash or it could define them as being potentially suitable for admittance to the country club." pg 21

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"Writing was the most normal thing in the world to do." Page 14

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"Being hooked on heroin didn't keep us in the spoon so much as out lack of knowledge about the world outside of it"

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"Reclaiming my language - proving that being trailer park trash doesn't preclude intelligence - has gone a long way towards bringing me comfort in my new world" Pg 24

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"I cared about what she thought for what it could gain me but I also started caring what she thought simply for the sake of the story." pg. 17

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"But I found as I worked through the combining of the voices that I was healing." Page 23

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"And I didn't start out planning to kill him off but that's how it worked out." Page 20

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"I went to jail and I wrote because the writing had value." Pg. 21

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“ We had mostly men in the art class, and it was kind of comical to watch the tiny and clearly uncomfortable young teacher, trying to be the leader amongst that group of hard-core gangsters.” Pg.15

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"I've been allowed to keep my memories whole and intact and the letter have made Mickey and Megan a single being."

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"But the voice was still a problem. She called me "Miss Passive Voice" and told me to write it the way I spoke it." Pg. 23