"I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up."

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Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

— James A. Michener