Early Life
Jim Norton was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, to a family from the Duncan Avenue area of Jersey City.
Norton dropped out of high school in his senior year and never graduated. He entered rehab soon after, at age 17. A couple of years later he attended Middlesex County College, where he earned a B in English, an F in Probability and Statistics, an F in Western Civilization and an F in Biology. A year later he obtained his GED, after being sober for around three years.
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“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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