Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: reading books literature body life-of-the-mind



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The only way out is in ...

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: life-direction



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God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: stories storytellers



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There's hundreds of corners on this island, Crystal said. And there are thousands of us. Exiles from the heartland without a heart. Out of the old country, a brand-new tribe, dancing to new tunes around a bucket of fire in a vacant lot.

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: tribes



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So I'm smoking in the house, Mother said. And Bobbie's got a dog in her room. And your son Will's got an Injun in his. So there it is, Mother said. Like it or lump it!

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: the-wrath-and-love-of-mothers



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Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy -- a lucid compulsion -- a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: joy



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You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: directionality



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All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: manhood



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All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: family



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It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

Tom Spanbauer

Tags: survivors



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