If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
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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.Tracy Kidder
Returning to Northampton, I thought here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.
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The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.
Tracy Kidder
We shouldn't forget how terrifying untamed landscape was to early settlers. From their perspective, mankind was put here in the New World to conquer the wilderness.
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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.
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For months I'd been trying to convince myself, by convincing everybody back home, that in the crucible of war I'd made that great transition,
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