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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.
- I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a…
- I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
- What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative
- 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…
- Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
- 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.…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster