Tracy Kidder Quotes

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

Tracy Kidder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1945

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No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!

Joanna Krupa

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I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Toni Morrison

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Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.

Tom Morello

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I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Tom Glazer

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In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Robert Benton

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I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Dionne Warwick

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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Denis Waitley

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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

Chief Joseph

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School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

Chris Riddell

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I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

Boy George

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I went to Vegas for 22 years, married some absolutely charming women, and gave them all my money.

Anthony Newley

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What a heaven is love! O what a hell!

Thomas Dekker

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