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"I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan."
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"He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'"
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"It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass."
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"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."

"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."

"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."

"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."

"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."

"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."

"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."

"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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