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Tracy Kidder

"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

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"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

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"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

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"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."

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"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

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"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"The right thing done at the wrong time will not bring about the right results."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

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"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
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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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"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
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"I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam."
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"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."
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"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
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"In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place."
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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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"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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