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I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: November 12
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New York City
New York
John Tracy Kidder
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Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.
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If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen
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My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
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God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us
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I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
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When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
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The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
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Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.
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In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
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The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.
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I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.
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Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
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I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
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You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
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Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
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People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
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I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
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What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives
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At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.
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