Tracy Kidder Quotes

• Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

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  Writing, Revision, Prose

  Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House

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• Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

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  Inspiring, Spring, Adventure

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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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  Life, Inspire, Purpose

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• Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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  Profesor, Enseñanza, Escuela

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... 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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  Men, Giving, Needs

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• Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

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  People, Humanity, Together

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Me voy a una comuna en Vermont y no me ocuparé de ninguna unidad de tiempo inferior a una temporada.

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  Vermont, Deals, Units

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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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  Giving, House, Gone

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• The only real nation is humanity

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  Real, Humanity, Interdependence

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.241, Random House

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• among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

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  Coward, Weapons, Cynicism

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.241, Random House

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• Suelo escribir sobre gente corriente y cosas corrientes, pero Paul Farmer es la persona menos corriente que he conocido... Es el líder de un pequeño grupo de personas que esperan curar un mundo enfermo, y espero que mi libro pueda ayudar en algo.

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  Book, Writing, Sick World

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• ...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

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  Goal, Imitation, Emphasis

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.278, Random House

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• When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

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  Believe, Stories, Reader

  Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.81, Random House

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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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  Hard Work, Writing, Mind

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• Y me imagino a Farmer diciendo que no le importa si nadie más está dispuesto a seguir su ejemplo. Seguirá haciendo estas caminatas, insistiría, porque si dices que siete horas es demasiado tiempo para caminar para dos familias de pacientes, estás diciendo que sus vidas importan menos que las de otros, y la idea de que algunas vidas importan menos es la raíz de todo lo que está mal en el mundo.

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  Ideas, Two, Roots

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.338, Random House

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• Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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  Teacher, Skills, Pyramids

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

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  Airplane, People, Alive

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.338, Random House

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• Paul Farmer ha ayudado a construir un sistema sanitario asombroso en una de las zonas más pobres de Haití. Fundó Partners in Health, que atiende a indigentes y enfermos en muchas partes del mundo, de Haití a Boston y de Rusia a Perú.

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  Russia, Boston, Sick

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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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• What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

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  Creativity, Creative, Fiction

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• ... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

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  Ocean, Swimming, May

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

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• In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

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  Order, Goes On, Strange

  Tracy Kidder (2009). “Strength in What Remains”, p.111, Random House

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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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  Reflection, People, Trying

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• I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

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  Glasses, Want, Clear

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• I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

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  Believe, Thinking, Important

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