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  1. edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Thursday, May 12, 2011.

    • Added a quotation: “I think chicken dancers are cool because, well, they dance like chickens. And you already know how much I love chicken.
    • Added a quotation: “Let me repeat that: MR. P SOMETIMES FORGETS TO COME TO SCHOOL! Yep, we have to send a kid down to teachers' housing compound behind the school to wake Mr. P, who is always conking out in front of his tv.
    • Added a quotation: “Come home, Dad. I am home. Misery is my home.Junior to his dad.
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  2. edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Monday, January 31, 2011.

    • Added a quotation: “When I was eight, nine, and ten, I slept in my bedroom closet with the door closed. I only stopped doing that because my big sister, Mary, told me that I was just trying to find my way back into my mother's womb. That ruined the whole closet thing.
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  3. edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Monday, January 31, 2011.

    • Added a quotation: “God, this-kid was an eighty-year-old literature professor trapped in the body of a fifteen-year-old farm boy.
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  4. Michelle Ma Belle

    Michelle Ma Belle edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sunday, January 2, 2011.

    • Added a quotation: “There is nothing better than a chicken leg when you haven't eaten for (approximately) eighteen-and-a-half hours. And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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  5. Hannah K

    Hannah K edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Friday, August 27, 2010.

    • Added a quotation: “We didn't keep score.
    • Added a quotation: “'Grief (n.): When you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.'
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  6. ~Kerry D~

    ~Kerry D~ edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Tuesday, August 3, 2010.

    • Edited a quotation: “If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazingamazing.
    • Edited a quotation: “You've been fighting since you were bord.born. You fought off the brain surgery. You fought off those seizures. You fought off all the drunks and drug addicts. You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope.”
    • Edited a quotation: “I always knew that you were going to leave us behind and travel the world. I had a dream about you a few months ago. You were standing on the Great Wall of China. You looked happy. And I was happy for youyou.
    • Edited a quotation: “No, poverty only teaches you how to be poorpoor.
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  7. TaNeel R

    TaNeel R edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Saturday, January 2, 2010.

    • Edited a quotation: “Indian families stick together like Gorilla Glue,You've been fighting since you were bord. You fought off the strongest adhesive inbrain surgery. You fought off those seizures. You fought off all the worlddrunks and drug addicts. You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope.
    • Edited a quotation: “Poverty doesn't giveI always knew that you strength or teachwere going to leave us behind and travel the world. I had a dream about you lessons about perseverancea few months ago. You were standing on the Great Wall of China. You looked happy. And I was happy for you
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  8. Peiyu W

    Peiyu W edited the memorable quotes of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sunday, July 12, 2009.

    • Added a quotation: “If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing
    • Added a quotation: “Indian families stick together like Gorilla Glue, the strongest adhesive in the world
    • Added a quotation: “Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance
    • Added a quotation: “No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor
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