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"I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same."
"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
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