"When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the black people to like what I was doing, I was on the right track. So I began to play to those people because they knew what the authentic music was. I've always had that in the back of my head."

-- Paul Smoker

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“It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.”
“Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.”
“The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.”
“Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end.”
“Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.”
“There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.”
“Happiness is always a coincidence.”
“Moving between her thighs, he stretched out above her, then thrust into her. Once. Because, as he did everything, he acted without hesitation or apology to claim her entirely. Her eyes went wide and her breath caught. Holding her gaze, he pressed himself deeper, barely easing back before pressing deep again.”

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