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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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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."
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Personal Development
"Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good."
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Personal Development
"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
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"There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."
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Personal Development
"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."
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Personal Development
"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
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"It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well."
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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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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."
Family
"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
"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."
Leadership
"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."
Being
"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."
Happiness
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