Tracy Kidder Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Book, Writing, Effort

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• I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.

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  Believe, Tired, Sleep

  Tracy Kidder (2009). “Strength in What Remains”, p.186, Random House

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• In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.

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  Design, Brain, Giants

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

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  Children, Numbers, Secret

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• People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I always want to write something better than the last book.

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  Book, Writing, Want

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• I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

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  Writing, Thinking, Shows

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• Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

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  Obsessive Compulsive, Clubs, Strange

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• I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

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  Vietnam, Combat, Novel

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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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  Russia, Boston, Sick

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• My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

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  Struggle, People, Care

  "Mission impossible" by Tracy Kidder, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.

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• I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

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  Mad, Computer

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

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  Way, Easy, Easy Way

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• Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

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  England, Programming Languages, Continuity

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• I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

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  Book, Organization, Lap

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• I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.

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  Grateful, Writing, Grace

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• The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

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  Ocean, Humility, Care

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

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  Giving, Needs, Haitian

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.94, Random House

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• If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

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  House, Childhood, Happy Childhood

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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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  Book, Writing, Good Day

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• If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

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  Long, Enough, Small Places

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• The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

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  Writing, Copying, Done

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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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  Commitment, Years, Two

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• The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

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  Expression, Combination, Domesticity

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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

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  Way, Firsts, Landmarks

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