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• Maybe it's easier to think about dishonesty and what kind of trouble you can get into as a writer when love and honesty collide and you sidestep that collision, either because you want to protect somebody or you want to blame somebody - which are the usual impulses in love: protection and blame, frequently at the same time - so you don't exactly tell the truth.

  Leigh Newman

  Honesty, Thinking, Usual

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.

  Leigh Newman

  Growing Up, Phones, Cells

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• I would hit a scene about my mother screaming at me during her breakdown, drunk or using pills, and she'd turn into a monster. Which she wasn't. She was a human: somebody who loved me and somebody with a problem.

  Leigh Newman

  Mother, Drunk, Monsters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

  Leigh Newman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Feel Better, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

  Leigh Newman

  Joy, Waiting, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even as my family fell apart and things were at their most hopeless, my dad and I found a lot of happiness in the wilderness - sleeping on the cold gravel and killing as many things as we could get our hands on. Even as my mom got progressively more crazy, we found a happiness, in flashes.

  Leigh Newman

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint them. Even though was I was pretty committed to disappointing everybody else.

  Leigh Newman

  Brother, Teenage, Stupid

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.

  Leigh Newman

  Baby, Brother, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

  Leigh Newman

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

  Leigh Newman

  Mom, Ideas, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

  Leigh Newman

  School, Character, Who We Are

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

  Leigh Newman

  Children, Sibling, Only Child

  Source: therumpus.net

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