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Tracy Kidder

"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."

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"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."

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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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"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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"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."
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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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"I always want to write something better than the last book."
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"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."
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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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"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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"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
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"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
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