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"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."
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"Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter."
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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
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"I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family."
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"Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?"
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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family."
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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."
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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
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"It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"I always want to write something better than the last book."
Want
"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
Life
"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."
Being
"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."
Writing
"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
Writing
"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."
Health
"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."
Family
"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
Writing
"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."
Work
"I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam."
Writing
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