"The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas."

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This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

— Paul Auster