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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.
Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: November 12
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New York City
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John Tracy Kidder
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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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The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.
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When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
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I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
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I always want to write something better than the last book.
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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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In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
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My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
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I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.
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The only real nation is humanity
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