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John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003).

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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.

Ocean, Swimming, May, Middle, Right

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.

Care, Humility, Ocean, Oceans, Promoters, Religion

The only real nation is humanity

Humanity, Interdependence, Nation, Real

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.

Done, Hold, Humanity, Imagine, People, Together

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.

Bay, Giving, Men, Needs, Peasants, Supposed

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.

Believe, Intelligence, People, Said, Sleep, Tired

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

Consisted, Copying, Done, Right, Writing

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.

Hard Work, Keep, Know, Mind, Stories, Writing

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

Enough, Live, Long, Place, Small Places

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

Clothes, Radicals, Thinking, Water

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

Believe, Exactly, Important, Think, Thinking, Though

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

Gives, Giving, Haitian, Humans, Needs, Supposed

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.

Classroom, Education, People, School, Teacher, Teaching

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

Firsts, Landmarks, Let, Person, Tells, Way

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.

Children, Declared, Disposed, Lost, Numbers, Secret

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

Childhood, Dwell, Essentially, Happy Childhood, House, Tends

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

Book, Want, Write, Writing

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

Combination, Domesticity, Expression, Wildness

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.

Book, Effort, Subject, Worth, Writing

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

Among, Coward, Cynicism, Weapons

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