Gary Soto Quotes

#1. I drank that sentence and began to glow.

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#2. Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. Going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

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#6. I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

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#7. I'll be the invisible girl,
Everyone passing through me,
No one touching.

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#8. Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.

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#9. You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

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