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I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

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My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.

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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

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My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.

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A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

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Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.

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Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.

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I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.

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It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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