"My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor."

-- Herbie Hancock

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“Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.”
“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”
“I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.”
“I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut them because they didn't seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters.”

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“But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.”
“Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.”
“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”
“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”

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