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It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.
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Gary Soto
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Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.
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Gary Soto (The Elements of San Joaquin (Pitt Poetry (Paperback)))
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going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere
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Gary Soto (Buried Onions)
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The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.
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Gary Soto (Buried Onions)
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I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
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Gary Soto (New and Selected Poems)
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I drank that sentence and began to glow.
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Gary Soto (Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing)
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I'll be the invisible girl,
Everyone passing through me,
No one touching.
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Gary Soto
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Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear. DOWNTOWN
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Gary Soto (The Afterlife: A Novel)
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Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if there were such a place, which there is not because religion is a mystification contrived by monarchists! Again! Again, and this time do it properly!
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Nick Harkaway (Angelmaker)