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Tracy Kidder

"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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"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 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 always want to write something better than the last book."
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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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"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."
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