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I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
— Tracy Kidder
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
— Tracy Kidder
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
— Tracy Kidder
How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.
— Tracy Kidder
Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.
— Tracy Kidder
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
— Arthur Miller
If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.
— Rushworth M Kidder
I was briefly bitter.
— Margot Kidder
I'm an old cynic.
— Margot Kidder
Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me.
— Margot Kidder
A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.
— Ernest Hemingway,
God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.
— Margot Kidder
I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.
— Tracy Kidder
If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.
— Margot Kidder
I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
— Margot Kidder
My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.
— Margot Kidder
I'm a very good screamer, that's for sure.
— Margot Kidder
Babylonian scientists used a counting system based on the number sixty, which is why minutes have sixty seconds.
— David S. Kidder
When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn't care. It was, all of a sudden, a job.
— Tracy Kidder
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
— Margot Kidder
Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.
— Tracy Kidder
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
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
— Tracy Kidder
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.
— Tracy Kidder
I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.
— Margot Kidder
I always want to write something better than the last book.
— Tracy Kidder
Acting's fun, but life's more important.
— Margot Kidder
The only real nation is humanity
— Tracy Kidder
Too much protocol.
— Tracy Kidder
So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.
— Tracy Kidder
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
— Tracy Kidder
The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
— Margot Kidder
I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
— Margot Kidder
Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
— Margot Kidder
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
— Tracy Kidder
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
— Tracy Kidder
Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
— Tracy Kidder
Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
— Tracy Kidder
I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
— Margot Kidder
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
— Tracy Kidder
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
god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb
— Tracy Kidder
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.
— Tracy Kidder
It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret.
— Tracy Kidder
One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, "Computers are irrelevant." Building
— Tracy Kidder
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
— Tracy Kidder
The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
— Margot Kidder
You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
— Tracy Kidder
He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again.
— Tracy Kidder
If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen.
— Tracy Kidder
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.
— Tracy Kidder
Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
— Margot Kidder