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Anyone who says "I can shred on the mandolin for the crowd" should be in here with me...even if they're trying to earn their way into the FunHouse.

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All that is, exists on two sides of the same coin. The beauty is what lies in between.

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Reading @StevenPinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature. Good read... It's about the steady decline in violence throughout human history. Very interesting.

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We are issued 2 rolls of toilet paper. Headed for my 2nd shit of the day, a costly, inefficient, unplanned endeavor, I found 3/4 of a roll in the stall. Blessed! On my way out, a panicked convict scrambled past in frantic search. I gave that roll back. #HonorAmongstTheives

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A TRUE writer doesn't write because he wants to, or because she loves it. A TRUE writer often despises the craft but, with no other options, has come to grips with its necessity.

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Squeeze every last drop from these moments of joy and pain alike. Scrape your knees along the way and treat you heart with reckless abandon. Let your scar tissue be the trophies on your mantle. #DoLife

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I cannot take flight with this cumbersome mask anchoring me to this marble.

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The gravity of some unknown event has always pulled at me, leading me to some monumental happening. A moment looming so heavy and inevitable that it pulled time into an arrow. I've been dragged, moment to moment, unable to avoid what has already been made manifest. #FuckFate

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Imagine the possibilities if we could find a cure from the disease of sleep. Meth doesn't count.

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A true writer is seasoned. Flavored with tragedy & triumph versed in the cruel reality of life, beaten to a pulp by instinct & nature, a rare breed but easy to spot. A patina forms in the eyes, a still chaos in their gaze, and absurdity in their actions. They are embedded in life.

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You know who should be in prison? The assholes who get off on spoiling movies & TV shows...

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Your daily dose of recommended prison reading www.notesfromthepen.com/new-blog -Notches on a Wall and Temporary Happiness. -A Break In The Fire -Killer Mattresses and World Domination -Circles

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They say LUCK is the residue of DESIGN... We see it as chance, but with a wide enough angle luck may be indistinguishable from FATE.

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Where is our Bukowski, Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson? Where are the writers—the REAL writers—who’ve crawled through the trenches and climbed from the gutter of life; the authors who really deserve our attention? We are dying for credibility and experience #ThisIsMe

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Oppressionism: art as a means of resistance where artists are often forced to utilize found, pilfered, or contraband materials to complete their works. mc

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Life is a sitcom; work is the commercials in between. When there is less show than commercial, something has to give. What are you watching?

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We are surrounded by assholes. Don't be blown away every time one of 'em breaks wind.

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My work is part of an underground Oppressionist movement (art created under active oppression, often institutional confinement, as a means of resistance). www.notesfromthepen.com/art-1

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Our willingness to let TRUE free speech live is like an endangered species on the brink of annihilation. Stand-up comedy is the last sanctuary for this often intimidating but ultimately beautiful beast to take shelter while the storm passes. I hope beyond words that it's enough.

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Stop claiming, "They used to do it" as a justification for your buffoonery. Nearly everything we "used to do" was left behind for a reason. That's why it's something we USED to do. Pedophiles in here say, "we used to be able to marry 12 yr olds"... I rest my case.

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Prison rule #3 find something productive to do with your time. I cannot overstate the importance of this rule. This is the only way to reclaim the TIME the system is taking from you. TIME, the most valuable, least renewable, resource in the universe; do NOT waste it.

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One peer reviewed study shows that judges hand out harsher sentences just before they've eaten lunch, when they're hungriest. #ArbitraryJustice

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For the most part, Prison is full of FLAWED—not EVIL—people.

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Prison rule #932 Keep quiet. The only people more concerned with gossip than a squad of high school cheerleaders from the Valley, are prison inmates.

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Its here! Notes From The Pen new eliside mc open.spotify.com/episode/6hFt...

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Bobby shares the beginning journey of his addiction. It was hard for me to hear, and it broke my heart because as his mom I couldn’t help but feel responsible. What I’d give to go back in time. This is part 1 of what will be an ongoing series about addiction. mc podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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It’s here! This week’s NOTES FROM THE PEN episode. A quarter of a million downloads can’t be wrong. mc podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Catch the latest episode of Notes From The Pen. mc podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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How would your favorite comedian hold up in prison? Check out how America’s favorite inmate rates standup comics. mc #comedy www.notesfromthepen.com/comedians-in...

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Doug is the best! mc

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If you EVER have the chance to see Doug’s standup in person - DO IT! Check out his routines on your streaming services. mc

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Wise man….and very funny! mc

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WORDS, words, more words...until what? What do I expect? Symbols meant to convey meaning. An attempt to connect—to understand each other. I'm constantly scrambling to find the perfect configuration of these 26 characters of our alphabet—to find...WHAT? To DO what? I wish I knew.

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At this point, Justice is just a word...The decisions that dictate the outcome of many lives is made as arbitrary as picking out a bowling ball when they're all the same weight.

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In 2015, the world came together to stop the Ebola outbreak. The WORLD! Imagine if poverty were CONTAGIOUS; no one would go hungry again.

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I wonder where we're headed... I wish I could see it...I want to know it all.

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I own 2 pairs of pants...

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Asian guys nowadays have it easy. When I was growing up, in the 80's, it was Long Duck Dong and Short Round. Now, we're in BTS with throngs of screaming fans and starring opposite Yara Shahidi. Now we're Crazy Rich Asians—not just PUNCHLINES. #BetterLateThanNever.

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Stand up comedy is the last bastion and highest expression of free speech. Amazing, poignant, and, most importantly, hilarious!!! I miss Tough Crowd...Prison sucks!

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I lean left on nearly every issue, except one: EXTREME political correctness. Words DO mean something but I WILL NOT give them the power to hurt me. I am much TOO STRONG, have been through way TOO MUCH to be so easily damaged #ToughLiberal

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