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I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor. . . . My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.

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In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. . . . In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

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[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

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Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

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[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

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The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.

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