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The fig tree analogy in the book should go down and one of the best quoted lines of all time.

“I felt like a racehorse in a world without race tracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantle with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrows shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all different directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”