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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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

American Author Editor's Pick inspirational Life Quote of the Day

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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

American Author

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

American Author Nonsense

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

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

American Author Believe

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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

American Author Books And Reading

Right now I'm really researching for a good non-fiction story... I doubt that I'll ever find a subject like Paul Farmer ever again. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Right now I'm really researching for a good non-fiction story... I doubt that I'll ever find a subject like Paul Farmer ever again.

Doubt

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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

I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can also be used when writing non-fiction. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can also be used when writing non-fiction.

I wanted some way to invite readers in, to set the stage for the book - and I tried many different things. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I wanted some way to invite readers in, to set the stage for the book - and I tried many different things.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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

American Author

We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness.

Mankind Perspective

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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

American Author

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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

American Author

I like particular people, particular places. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I like particular people, particular places.

The world doesn't make much sense to me generally. I don't feel like I'm good at that. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

The world doesn't make much sense to me generally. I don't feel like I'm good at that.

Memory is so much a part of imagination, so plastic, so wonderfully plastic. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Memory is so much a part of imagination, so plastic, so wonderfully plastic.

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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

American Author

Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.

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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

American Author

You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don't have to. It makes things a lot more fun, more interesting. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don't have to. It makes things a lot more fun, more interesting.

Suddenly the idea of being a writer seemed much more romantic-and a great way to impress girls. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Suddenly the idea of being a writer seemed much more romantic-and a great way to impress girls.

I think there's a certain level of decency and honor. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I think there's a certain level of decency and honor.

The view from the summit of Mt. Holyoke has been one of the most famous landscapes in America. And yet, all these things are going on underneath. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

The view from the summit of Mt. Holyoke has been one of the most famous landscapes in America. And yet, all these things are going on underneath.

New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time.

I would read and write all night long and, as a result, wound up cutting a lot of my other classes. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I would read and write all night long and, as a result, wound up cutting a lot of my other classes.

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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

American Author

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.

Andover was like a monastery back then. We worked all the time. The hazing was ferocious-I still hate to think about it. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Andover was like a monastery back then. We worked all the time. The hazing was ferocious-I still hate to think about it.

I grew up in Long Island, a place that vanished in front of my eyes. I grew up there in the '50s, in the great building boom. It was pretty distressing-you go away and come home and find a whole town gone, a cloverleaf in its place. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I grew up in Long Island, a place that vanished in front of my eyes. I grew up there in the '50s, in the great building boom. It was pretty distressing-you go away and come home and find a whole town gone, a cloverleaf in its place.

I wanted to stay with my friends on Long Island, but I finally agreed to take a look at Andover. I remember being impressed by the school's extraordinary facilities. I thought about it long and hard and decided to give it a try. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I wanted to stay with my friends on Long Island, but I finally agreed to take a look at Andover. I remember being impressed by the school's extraordinary facilities. I thought about it long and hard and decided to give it a try.

My Detachment: A Memoir - Tracy Kidder Quotes

My Detachment: A Memoir

When we see a bag lady ... on the street, in that moment in our lives we try to get as far away from that person as possible, ... But the truth is, that person is me. That person is all of us, to a certain extent. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

When we see a bag lady ... on the street, in that moment in our lives we try to get as far away from that person as possible, ... But the truth is, that person is me. That person is all of us, to a certain extent.

Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world.

For months I'd been trying to convince myself, by convincing everybody back home, that in the crucible of war I'd made that great transition, - Tracy Kidder Quotes

For months I'd been trying to convince myself, by convincing everybody back home, that in the crucible of war I'd made that great transition,

I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do, - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do,

From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car.

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

My Detachment. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

That thing got pretty rusty, - Tracy Kidder Quotes

That thing got pretty rusty,

The underside of a town as nice as Northampton can still be pretty gritty. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

The underside of a town as nice as Northampton can still be pretty gritty.

Northampton has layers and layers. I saw a whole side of it I didn't know, hadn't imagined had existed. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Northampton has layers and layers. I saw a whole side of it I didn't know, hadn't imagined had existed.

At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story for the New Yorker. I don't think I would previously have been able to imagine a place as dreadful as Haiti, and when I came back I couldn't help but think about the advantages we have in this place. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story for the New Yorker. I don't think I would previously have been able to imagine a place as dreadful as Haiti, and when I came back I couldn't help but think about the advantages we have in this place.

Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.

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. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

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.

[When Farmer asked the farmers when they had come to America to work in such miserable conditions, they responded,] Have you ever seen Haiti? ... ... Haiti is a country created by former slaves, kidnapped West Africans who threw off their extremely cruel French masters and created their own new home. It's the only place in the world where this happened, but it happened in 1804, while slavery still flourished here in the United States. - Tracy Kidder Quotes

[When Farmer asked the farmers when they had come to America to work in such miserable conditions, they responded,] Have you ever seen Haiti? ... ... Haiti is a country created by former slaves, kidnapped West Africans who threw off their extremely cruel French masters and created their own new home. It's the only place in the world where this happened, but it happened in 1804, while slavery still flourished here in the United States.

PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena, - Tracy Kidder Quotes

PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena,

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