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Tracy Kidder Quotes
«I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«My Detachment.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«That thing got pretty rusty,»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«The underside of a town as nice as Northampton can still be pretty gritty.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«Northampton has layers and layers. I saw a whole side of it I didn't know, hadn't imagined had existed.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«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.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«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.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«[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.»
Author: Tracy Kidder
«PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena,»
Author: Tracy Kidder
