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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."
"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"
"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual security'-knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame."
"And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way."
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"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."
"I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930."
"The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man."
"They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me."
"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."
"Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that."
"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed."
"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."
"My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets."
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