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Gregory Corso

"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."

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"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"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."
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"I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930."
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"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."
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"The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis."
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"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."
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"I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old."
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"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."
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"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her."
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"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."
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