Notice that â appears where inverted commas " or apostrophe ' is used.
The correct texts should read as follows:
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad."
NEAL STEPHENSON, SNOW CRASH
"To suffer and learn a lesson, one pays a high price, but a fool can't learn any other way."
--TRADITIONAL CHINESE PROVERB