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"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
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"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
Society
"I always want to write something better than the last book."
Want
"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
Writing
"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."
Time
"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."
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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 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."
Travel
"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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"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."
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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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